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[ EDUCATION OF GIRLS & YOUNG WOMEN
MANUSCRIPT – ALBUM AMICORUM ]
GUIZELIN, Virginie de,
[ Manuscript ] - Album amicorum, Souvenirs
Paris & France, 1812 & circa 1820-1840. 12vo oblong, blue carboards,monogram VG, 57 ff.
Beautiful Album Amicorum of a young noble girl : Virginie de Guizelin (1795-1874). She was 17 years old at the beginning of the album. Virginie de Guizelin was a boarder in the educational house for girls of Madame Lorphelin,at 10 rue Boissy-d'Anglas in Paris (she gives a list of her classmates) : the French nobility received there the best possible education "an education of duchess" & Madame Lorphelin was then the rival of Madame Campan. The notebook contains several pencil or pen drawings and a watercolor representing her family's castle in Guînes (Pas-de-Calais), as well as testimonies of friendship from her fellow boarders or her friends, also mostly noble girls. Long and moving letters of young women mostly dated around 1812. The album was also used later to collect some other… Read More