Institut Alpin Videmanette
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The Institut Alpin Videmanette was a finishing school in the municipality of Rougemont, Switzerland. It was an all-girl school where the lessons were skiing, cooking, dressmaking[1] and French.[1][2]
In 1973, the school was headed by Monsieur and Madame C. L. Yersin.[3] In 1981, it was reported to have an age range between sixteen and twenty and to teach language and commercial programmes through the medium of the French language.[4]
The main facilities were in Château d'Œx.[5][6]
Tamara Mellon was at the school in the mid-1980s, when it had some sixty girls and was still headed by Madame Yersin. She later wrote of it that "The assumption was that you were a dunce and that the only hope for you was to attach yourself to what was known as a good provider." In her day there was a smoking room and in the winter months there were skiing lessons every afternoon. Girls would often meet boys from Le Rosey at a nightclub in Gstaad. The winter campus of Le Rosey was nearby.[7]
The school closed in 1991.[8]
Alumnae
- Diana, Princess of Wales: 1977 to 1978.[8][1][2]
- Hayley Mills[9]
- Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark
- Alexandra "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke[8]
- Tamara Mellon[10][11]
References
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- ↑ "Institut Alpin Videmanette" in Schools 1973 (London: Truman & Knightley Educational Trust, 1973), p. 799
- ↑ "Institut Alpin Videmanette" in Karlene N. Dickey, Switzerland, a Study of the Educational System of Switzerland and a Guide to the Academic Placement of Students from Switzerland in Educational Institutions of the United States (American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, 1981), p. 118
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- ↑ Tamara Mellon, In My Shoes (London: Penguin, 2013), pp. 38–41
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