Excerpt from Rosa Bonheur<br><br>Her first education was received in a small school for boys, kept by an Old man living in the same house, to which her two brothers were sent, an atmosphere that exactly suited her tempera ment, I was not frightened by having only boys for my companions, she wrote, and when we went during play hours to play in the garden of the Place Royale I was the leader in the games, and did not hesitate, when need arose, to use my fists. Her copybooks both here and later were covered with sketches of animals Of every description.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.