B AR A LT 



BLANCHE ZACHARIE DE BARALT 



Lecturer; writer. 



Blanche Zacharie was born in New 

 York on the seventeenth of March, 1866, 

 but spent most of her childhood in Paris 

 where she obtained her early education. 

 On returning to the United States, she 

 entered the Packer Collegiate Institute of 

 Brooklyn where she graduated and after- 

 wards continued her studies, particularly 

 in music, which she pursued under the 

 best masters for several years. 



After her marriage to Dr. Baralt (q. v.) 

 she continued to live in New York, occu- 

 pied chiefly in literary work, until 1900 

 when her husband fixed his residence in 

 Havana and where husband and wife have 

 had an active literary career. In 1902 she 

 obtained the degree of Doctora in Philoso- 

 phy and Letters. 



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