One of the earliest books that Marie could remember was Pierre et Pierrette, a celebrated little text written by her grandmother Belloc
to improve the education of French village children. She grew up conscious...
Family and Intimate relationships
Bessie Rayner Parkes
They rented the chalet from writer Louise Swanton Belloc
, the widow of French painter Hilaire Belloc (the elder)
, who lived in the house next door. BRP
soon became deeply attached to her.
Family and Intimate relationships
Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL
's paternal, French grandmother, Louise Swanton Belloc
, was a children's writer, a translator, intimate friend of Stendhal and Victor Hugo
, and the author of a life of Byron
(for which Stendhal
supplied...
