"Life on the Road, in the Age of Napoleon" Topic

"Stéphanie Félicité de Genlis, born in 1746, was a writer, accomplished musician, and tutor to the children of a member of the French royal family, the Duc d'Orléans. She was an innovative teacher, developing modern methods of applied and practical learning, in contrast to the conventional reading program in Latin and the classics. She wrote plays and fiction to help children reenact historical lessons and she taught her pupils botany by taking them on field trips.

Travel of all kinds became, in her view, one of the best forms of education. She herself had more opportunities to travel than she could ever have foreseen, beginning with an abrupt flight from Paris during the Revolution. In 1793 both her husband and her employer the Duc d'Orléans were guillotined. She fled to England and then Switzerland with one of her pupils, Mademoiselle d'Orléans. She then lived in Germany for a time before returning to Paris in 1800. After this she supported herself by writing essays, novels, plays, children's literature, and memoirs…"
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