A well produced prospectus for an upper class establishment for schooling young ladies in fashionable Brighton. Mrs Louis Parez was born Mary Mercer in 1801 at London and by the late 1820’s had established a young ladies school of Misses Mercer and Bourn in Brighton. She married the drawing master and artist Louis Parez in 1828 and in 1831 Mary and Miss Bourn dissolved their partnership, probably because Mary was expecting her first child. The Parezs appear to have travelled in France where Louis prepared a number of drawings after which he opened his Classical Drawing Academy at 6 Regency Square with terms for pupils at £3 3s per quarter. Mary Parez also opened a school at their home about 1832 when the present prospectus was published. The terms to being admitted were high even by Regency standards, with full board at 50 Guineas per annum. Additional charges included drawing Mr Parez’s Classical Drawing Academy for an extra 12 guineas. Other education included Harp at 10 Guineas, ‘Piano Forte and Singing (each)’ at 8 Guineas etc., plus a separate bed for any young lady boarding at the school could be had for yet another 6 Guineas. Louis prepared to publish a series of lithographs through the firm of Rudolph Ackermann in 1833 as A series of Views illustrating the the most beautiful scenes on the Loire. This apparently only got as far as two published parts before it was abandoned and he was declared bankrupt by March 1834. The Classical Drawing Academy does not seem to have been a success and had already closed, Mary, however, had removed her school to Lewes by the time of the bankruptcy, but that seems to have lasted only a year, if indeed it ever opened. At any rate they appear to have fled to Italy, probably to escape Louis creditors, though unfortunately he died at Naples in 1836. Mary then returned to England with her three young children and became a governess until her death in 1854. Altogether a grand prospectus that records a rather tragic collapse of fortune.