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THE AMERICAN -SC AN DIN A VI AN RE VIEW 
Elisabeth Calmette After a Drawing by Her Husband 
mark, where he died shortly after acquiring the beautiful estate of 
Marienborg on Moen. The son allied himself completely with his 
second fatherland, served in its army, and in 1776 was made a member 
of its nobility. The same year he married an heiress, Anne Elisabeth 
Iselin, whose father, a descendant of a wealthy Swiss patrician family, 
had come to Denmark as a young man. Here he had founded one of 
the best established merchant houses in the country and had been 
created baronet. 
Since both the contracting parties possessed no small fortune, the 
alliance between Antoine Calmette and Lisa Iselin was not one of the 
usual marriages of convenience characteristic of the age. Her proud 
bearing and black, flashing eyes ranked her among the beauties of 
