Viscountess Dumoulin, a distant cousin (through her mother) of de la Fontaine, was instrumental in bringing the Brothers of the Christian Schools to Château-Thierry in 1831. A school was opened on Rue de la Madeleine with the approval of Mayor Poan de Sapincourt and the prefect. It was a three-classroom school with three brothers and a headmaster. The Viscountess was born in 1755 and died in 1831 in Château-Thierry.

Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Female
Artist: Durupt
Date:1836
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

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