Baroness Hélène van Zuylen


Friday 21st August 1863

Born on this day, Baroness Hélène van Zuylen, French socialite who entered the 1898 Paris–Amsterdam–Paris Trail using the pseudonym Snail, thus becoming the first woman to compete in an international motor race.


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