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<p>Though they were not, as Charlotte claimed, refugees from the French Revolution, Augustus Waldemar and Charlotte Victoire Mentelle undoubtedly felt like exiles in their adopted hometown of Lexington, Kentucky—a settlement that was still a frontier town when they arrived in 1798. Through the years, the cultured Parisian couple often reinvented themselves out of necessity, but their most famous venture was Mentelle's for Young Ladies, an intellectually rigorous school that attracted students fr

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Author

Randolph Paul Runyon

Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813175393

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Updated

2026-03-25