Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine
Louise de Fontaine was born in Paris, in the parish of Saint-Roch, on 28 October 1706. Her baptism act was as follows:
Jeanne Douste
Douste's parents were natives of the French Pyrenees, but she was born in London on 4 December, 1872. Neither her father nor her mother possessed any musical ability, but Douste had scarcely attained the age of four when she began to imitate on the piano that which she heard her elder sister play. For some time she played entirely by ear, without any knowledge of music; she actually performed, by heart, Mozart's pianoforte concertos at the Royal Aquarium Concerts, then under the direction of George Mount, with full orchestral accompaniments. It seems, however, that shortly after this period, Douste met with Henri-Louis-Stanislas Mortier de Fontaine, who, noticing the musical instinct of the child, volunteered to take charge of her artistic education. This artist was a friend and pupil of the Frederic Chopin.