Necker Belle Necker Belle The Necker Belle is a 105-foot (32 m) private charter catamaran yacht, offered through Virgin Limited Edition and based at the resort Necker Island. The "Belle" superyacht is one of the few luxury sailing catamarans in the world. Prior to being purchased by Richard Branson's Virgin, the yacht was called "Lady Barbaretta", and cost £5.3 million for Branson to obtain. It required a two-year refit to emerge as the Belle, operates with a crew of seven, and is currently captained by Captain Piers Helm. The refit won the "2010 best new refit" at the World Superyacht Awards. The
Albertine Necker de Saussure French chemists that she visited included Antoine Lavoisier; Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy; and Claude Louis Berthollet. In a letter to her father, Albertine described experiments she performed in their laboratories. Albertine Necker de Saussure's literary work began relatively late in life, after her children were grown. Her principal work, "l'Education Progressive" or " Etude du Cours de la Vie" (1828), was a long and influential study of educational theory and the education of women. The work is divided into two parts, originally in three volumes which were published successively. In the first two volumes, in which she examines general