SOURCE: "La Presse," in The Search for Isadora: The Legend & Legacy of Isadora Duncan, Dance Horizons Books, 1993, pp. 129-53.

In the following essay, Loewenthal recounts Duncan's reception by the press in Paris.

The importance of France in the formulation of Isadora Duncan's artistic image was emphasized to me by artist Abraham Walkowitz during a conversation at his Brooklyn home. He spoke of France's esteem and respect for creative people; how "without France, Isadora would not be Isadora… the French created her and the French got the best out of her." No other country had the opportunity to accumulate the quantity and variety of documentation concerning Isadora, who established the longest residency of her quasi-nomadic existence in Paris.

Writer George Delaquys reminisced how Isadora seemed to have dropped in on Paris in 1900, from out of nowhere, so to speak. She was not French; she was a foreigner. He pondered...