sentences:  She was born in Brest, France, the daughter of French novelist Émile Souvestre.She founded the girls' boarding schools "Les Ruches" ("the beehives") in Fontainebleau, France, where writer Natalie Clifford Barney and her sister Laura Clifford Barney were later educated, and Allenswood Boarding Academy, in Wimbledon, outside London, where her most famous pupil was Eleanor Roosevelt.Souvestre took a special interest in Roosevelt, who learned to speak French fluently and gained self-confidence.