Josephina went to Paris to work as a governess for the family of Paul Bert, whom she later married.
An author in her own right and Josephina Clayton, she had gone to France aged 15 to learn the language. She married Dr Paul Bert, later Professor of Physiology at the Sorbonne, a Minister of Education and Worship in the French Government and Resident-General in Annam and Tonkin, where he died in 1886.
Biography in "From Banff to Hanoi, Romance of a Teenager, Josephine Clayton or Bert 1846-1916", by Alexander Allan Cormack (1966).
An author in her own right and Josephina Clayton, she had gone to France aged 15 to learn the language. She married Dr Paul Bert, later Professor of Physiology at the Sorbonne, a Minister of Education and Worship in the French Government and Resident-General in Annam and Tonkin, where he died in 1886.
Biography in "From Banff to Hanoi, Romance of a Teenager, Josephine Clayton or Bert 1846-1916", by Alexander Allan Cormack (1966).
Josephina went to Paris to work as a governess for the family of Paul Bert, whom she later married.
An author in her own right and Josephina Clayton, she had gone to France aged 15 to learn the language. She married Dr Paul Bert, later Professor of Physiology at the Sorbonne, a Minister of Education and Worship in the French Government and Resident-General in Annam and Tonkin, where he died in 1886.
Biography in "From Banff to Hanoi, Romance of a Teenager, Josephine Clayton or Bert 1846-1916", by Alexander Allan Cormack (1966).
An author in her own right and Josephina Clayton, she had gone to France aged 15 to learn the language. She married Dr Paul Bert, later Professor of Physiology at the Sorbonne, a Minister of Education and Worship in the French Government and Resident-General in Annam and Tonkin, where he died in 1886.
Biography in "From Banff to Hanoi, Romance of a Teenager, Josephine Clayton or Bert 1846-1916", by Alexander Allan Cormack (1966).
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PAUL BERT
Auxerre 1833
Hanoi 1886
Professor à la Sorbonne
Membre de l'Institut
Deputé de l'Yonne
Ministre de lnstruction Publique
Et des Cultes
Premier Résident Général
En Annam et an Tonkin
MADAME PAUL BERT
Née JOSEPHINE CLAYTON
Collaboratrice de son mari
Banff 3 Oct 1846
Paris 6 Juin 1916
ANNA CLAYTON
1856 - 1928
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"From Banff and Hanoi: Romance of a Teenager: Josephine Clayton or Bert 1846-1916" by Alexander Alan Cormack (Reprinted from the Banffshire Journal annual, No 15, 1st December 1966)
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