Helm, W. H.; Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth [Ill.]: Vigée-LeBrun 1755-1842: her life, works and friendships : with a catalogue raisonne of the artist's pictures : with a frontispiece in colours, 40 photogravure plates and other illustrations (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1915)

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habit in these years of middle age (she was just fifty), though it is true
she was not long content to live quietly at home. “ My taste for travelling
was not yet satisfied : I had not yet seen Switzerland, and I was burning
with the desire to contemplate that grand and beautiful country,” of which,
as we know, various places had already “ reminded her.”