Le Manoir: A School Memory in Pictures

“Le Manoir” was a real finishing school in Switzerland before World War 2.

I used the school as the meeting point for my heroines in The Resistance Girl Series. It was here in Lausanne, on the shores of Lake Geneva, where they met up before the war.

Lili, Océane, Esther, Sable and Anna all ‘suffered’ at the hands of the strict schoolmistress, Madame Paul (Vierret), whom they secretly called the Sphinx.

But was she really that bad? At some point, I will tell you Madame Paul’s own story.

But for now, I’m happy to offer you this booklet with photos from the real “Le Manoir”.

I received these photos when I had already written some of the books so in my writer’s brain the school looked very different from reality, but that doesn’t matter one bit.

Take a trip down memory lane. Click on the image or the button.

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