Love, Parachutes, and Kathchen Paulus

Published: July 12, 2014, 9:30 a.m.

(Lucy) K\xe4thchen Paulus was born in the late 1860s, in a German village where she supported her mother by working as a seamstress. She died in the mid-30s in relative obscurity. But in between, she ran away with an adventurer, made and lost a fortune, became an international celebrity, an entrepreneur, a WWI military advisor, and an inventor of lasting influence.