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Emily and Charlotte arrived in Brussels in February 1842 accompanied by their father.

Once there, they enrolled at Monsieur and Madame Heger's boarding school in the Rue d ' Isabelle, for six months.

Claire Heger was the second wife of Constantin, and it was she who founded and directed the school while Constantin had the responsibility for the higher French classes.

According to Miss Wheelwright, a former pupil, he had the intellect of a genius.

He was passionate about his auditorium, demanding many lectures, perspectives, and structured analyses.

He was also a good-looking man with regular features, bushy hair, very black whiskers, and wore an excited expression while sounding forth on great authors about whom he invited his students to make a pastiche on general or philosophical themes.