She did not enjoy the same upbringing or career as the other well-known female Impressionists – Cassatt, Morisot, Gonzalès.[4] She was the child of an unhappy arranged marriage. Her father, a sea captain, died shortly after her birth[5]. Her mother Aline Hyacinthe Marie Pasquiou quickly remarried to Émile Langlois, and thereafter they led an unsettled existence, moving from Brittany to the Jura, to Switzerland, and to Limousin, before settling in Étampes, south of Paris.[6] She had one sister, Louise, born in 1849 while her family lived near Ussel (department Corrèze in Limousin) in the ancient abbey Notre-Dame de Bonnaigue.