Edwin Swift Balch
Published: 2018-05-08
Total Pages: 162
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Excerpt from Elise Willing Balch: In Memoriam Naturally, therefore, also, she was educated in France and in Germany. She had two governesses in Paris, Miss Lacoste, a daughter of the First Na poleon's General Lacoste, and Miss Vuilly. She also attended the Cours of Monsieur Remy, in the Rue St. Honoré, in which she always stood near the top. Indeed one year, altho there were over fifty French girls in the class, she took first place. In Paris also she went to the dancing school of Célarius, on the Rue Vivienne, and among her special friends were the grandchildren of Mon sieur Guizot, minister of foreign affairs of Louis Philippe. In Germany she attended a private school at Dresden during part of one winter, but her favorite instructor was Miss Varenna at Wies baden, with whom she kept up a life-long friend ship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.