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Madame Grelaud's French School, also called Madame Grelaud's Seminary, was a boarding school for girls in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which ran from approximately 1809–1849.
Madame Grelaud's French School, also called Madame Grelaud's Seminary, was a boarding school for girls in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which ran from approximately 1809–1849. Many prominent northerners and southerners sent their daughters to such institutions to participate in rigorous academic curricula and learn about elite aspects of culture ...
Angelica was educated at the Columbia Female Academy in South Carolina and Madame Grelaud's French School in Philadelphia for five years. She was a popular student at Madame Grelaud's and the school gave her the opportunity to meet a more diverse group of people.
From November 1804 to April 1806, Ann studied at Madame Grelaud’s school in Philadelphia, where she spent hours each day learning French – much to her chagrin. “I ought to acquire the french language perfectly ,” she lamented, “to repay me the many doleful nights & days I have spent within the walls of Mrs. Gerlaud’s school.” i
Madame Grelaud's French School, also called Madame Grelaud's Seminary, was a boarding school for girls in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which ran from approximately 1809–1849. Many prominent northerners and southerners sent their daughters to such institutions to participate in rigorous academic curricula and learn about elite aspects of culture ...
Partly this stemmed from the major proportion of the school’s population, the émigré community of French expatriates who fled from the French Revolution to Philadelphia in the 1790s. Another influential factor was the school’s founder, Madame Marie Rivardi. “The Mansion of All the Virtues and Graces”: The Rivardi’s Seminary, 1802 ...
Later, about 1838–1841, Dahlgren sent Dorsey to Madame Deborah Grelaud's French School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in the 1790s by a refugee from the French Revolution. Mme Grelaud was a Huguenot, and the school was Episcopal.
