There, one particular golden Buddha inspired the aha! moment that brought her to Buddhism. Instead, she took field trips to the Guimet Museum of Asian Arts. She wasn’t required to attend daily mass or learn Protestant doctrine. This choice gave her a superb education and religious freedom. At age 13, Alexandra enrolled as a Protestant in a Catholic convent school. Her father Louis, at least, doted on her, so she adopted his faith. Not surprisingly, Alexandra dropped her mother’s name (Alexandrine) in her teens. She abandoned Alexandra to a series of governesses and returned to her supplications.
While pregnant, her mother read the Last of the Mohicans and prayed for a boy-child who would grow up to be bishop. Her father was a Protestant anarchist and her mother a devout Catholic. The conflict between Alexandra’s parents may explain that early need to escape. Ever since I was five years old, a tiny precocious child of Paris, I wished to move out of the narrow limits in which, like all children of my age, I was then kept.
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