I was born in or near Paris, in the year 1844. My father was a fairly prosperous man of business?a general merchant, to be precise, who dealt largely in shoes; but when I was about ten years old, my mother, in consequence of certain domestic differences, took me to live with her at Montreux, and other places in Switzerland, where I was educated.
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