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Mrs Malfilatre’s Establishment, Jersey, a silver award medal, unsigned, named (First Prize Merit, Miss Phillips), rev. (I. Bynam, Professor of Dancing), 37mm. Very fine; with loop for suspension £100-150
Mrs Malfilatre’s School, Hemery place, St Helier, is listed in the Strangers Guide to the Island of Jersey, published in 1833, which also shows an establishment under the charge of a Mme Malfilatre at the Corinthian Hall, New street. The proprietor of one (if not both) establishments was almost certainly Sophie Catherine Charlotte Alphonse Louise Malfilatre, formerly of Calvados, who was listed in the 1841 Census as a governess, aged 40, living at Hemery place; it appears she was †by February 1853
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