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Alphonsine de Challié (1858 - 1904) was a French artist born at the Château de Gaultret in Deux-Sèvres. She grew up in a family of intellectuals who cared about artistic education and encouraged her drawing skills as well as her sister Laurence's talents as a pianist. Her father Édouard de Challié was a naval officer and South Seas backpacker, while her mother Laure de Jussieu was a writer. She has published various works on morality crowned by the Institute and which have earned her great notoriety.
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