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46 BIOGRAPHY.
at Auerbach, had made the Grand Duke believe that my
father had written to him to say that Fredrika was worse.
“ Go, go, by all means!” was the Grand Duke’s answer, and
now the good old doctor accompanied us to Heppenheim,
to assure himself that we should be well lodged in the
hotel which he had recommended to us there, after which,
with tears in his eyes, he took leave of us.
Our journey now lay through the wealthy, beautiful
Baden to Basle, and thence through Switzerland to Ge-
neva, where the news reached us that the yellow fever had
broken out in Marseilles. In order to obtain further in-
formation, my father determined to remain for some time
on the borders of the Lake of Geneva, at all events until
there should not be any danger of infection ; but, having
received positive news that the disease was gaining ground,
and that numbers of foreign families were leaving Mar-
seilles, all thoughts of spending the winter there had to be
abandoned. After a short excursion to Lausanne and
Vevay, and, after having placed my eldest brother Claes in
a boarding-school with a professor in Geneva, we crossed
the Jura Alps to Dijon, going thence to Paris, where we
were to remain over the winter.
My parents having engaged comfortable apartments in
the “ Hotel de Bruxelles,’ Rue Richelieu, — “the same
suite,” said the landlord, as “ v6tre compatriote, Monsieur
de Lagerbié (Lagerbjelke), Ministre de Suéde,’ had oc-
cupied several years, —we sisters had the benefit of ex-
cellent teachers, good and expensive, in music, drawing,
painting, and singing. At the larger theatres we had an
opportunity of seeing and hearing, at least once or twice a
week, the famous artists which appeared there at that time,
namely, Talma, Mademoiselle Duchesnoix, Mademoiselle
Mars, Madetnoiselle Georges, Madame Pasta, Madame
Mainville, Fodar, and others. None of them enchanted
Fredrika and me so much as Mademoiselle Mars, and at
no one’s great fame were we so astonished as at Talma’s.
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