Marie Rambert Marie Rambert Dame Marie Rambert, Mrs Dukes DBE (20 February 188812 June 1982) was a Polish-born dancer and pedagogue who exerted great influence on British ballet, both as a dancer and teacher. Born to a liberal Jewish family in Warsaw, Congress Poland, she was originally named Cyvia (Cesia) Rambam. Her father and two of his brothers later changed their last names to make them seem only children in order to escape military service in the Imperial Russian Army; and so, while one brother retained the name Rambam, her father changed his to Ramberg, another of his brothers went to Rambert,
Marie-Louise de Beauvoir Marie-Louise de Beauvoir Marie-Louise de Beauvoir née "Cousin" (17 August 1776, Pas-de-Calais-1855), was a Belgian pioneer educator. She was the founder of the first secular school for girls in Belgium, the «Maison d’éducation de demoiselles» in Liége, which was to be regarded as the perhaps most fashionable girls school in the country, and was its manager in 1816-1852. One of her students was the pioneer educator Léonie de Waha, who founded a college for girls, "l'école supérieure de demoiselles" (1868, from 1878 known as "lycée Léonie de Waha"). She was married to the French politician Louis-Etienne Beffroy de Beauvoir, and