Lot 68

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Nickleby's Antiques, Kyneton, Victoria, from whom purchased by Terence Lane in March, 2021

Born in the south of France, Marie Lion joined her sister and brother-in-law, Berthe and Nicholas Mouchette in emigrating to Melbourne in 1881. In 1884, following the death of her husband, Berthe purchased the highly-regarded Oberwyl Ladies' College in St Kilda where Marie joined her as a teacher. There, in 1890, the sisters hosted the inaugural meeting of the Alliance Française in Australia, with Marie soon conducting its first French language courses. In the midst of the early 1890s depression, the sisters sold Oberwyl and moved to Adelaide in 1892.