LA  FEMME  HOMARD

Although the photo below is identified otherwise, I believe it is the same lady as Mdme Brison. On the back of this card is written: Mdme Babault "Lobster Clawed Lady" her hands and feet were Shaped exactly like a Lobster Claw one of her feet being similar to the Lobster awake and the other asleep"

On July 27, 1909, La Femme homard (The Woman with Lobster Claws), Mlle Brison, a twenty-four-year-old woman with syndactyly, was brought before the Parisian tribunal. Brison had been accused of contravening the police ordinance of February 1906, which forbade the exhibition of living phénomènes (human and animals with physical anomalies) in fairs and carnivals, save those who, for exceptional reasons, had obtained a special permit. Brison's lawyer argued that she was an artiste because she staged sewing and embroidery demonstrations. The tribunal did not agree and Brison was found guilty of thirty infractions and ordered to pay thirty francs in fines, one franc for each infraction. from "The Phénomène's Dilemma: Teratology and the Policing of Human Anomalies in Nineteeth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Paris" by Diana Snigurowicz in "Foucalt And the Government of Disability", Shelley Tremain, ed.