The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun

CHAPTER I. YOUTH.

Precocious Talents Manifested -- Mlle. Vigee's Father and Mother -- Death of Her Father -- A Friend of Her Girlhood -- Her Mother Remarries -- Mlle. Vigee's First Portrait of Note (Count Schouvaloff) -- Acquaintance with Mme. Geoffrin -- The Authoress's Puritanical Bringing-up -- Male Sitters Attempt Flirtation -- Public Resorts of Paris Before the R...