Viette
Viette is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Viette Brown Sprague (1846–1923), American teaching missionary in Kalgan, China *Pierre Viette Pierre E. L. Viette (29 June 1921 – 30 April 2011) was a French entomologist. He attended university in Dijon during the German occupation of France in World War II and subsequently spent his entire career at the Muséum national d'Histoire natur ...

Viette Brown Sprague
Viette Brown Sprague (February 12, 1846 – November 2, 1923) was an American teaching missionary in Kalgan, China. She described her experiences during the Boxer Rebellion in a published memoir. Early life Viette Isabel Brown was born in Newark, New York, the daughter of Hiram Leicester Brown and Hester Ann Bonker Brown. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1871. Career As a young woman, Sprague was a teacher in New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. After her mother died and her father remarried, she went to China, married at Tientsin, and became a missionary under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; in 1893, she began teaching at a mission girls' school in Kalgan, China (her husband had been there since 1874). The Spragues temporarily fled to Mongolia and were rescued by Russians in the Gobi Desert in 1900, during the unrest of the Boxer Rebellion. They were included in a list of "Foreigners Who Have Probably Been Slain" on the fr ...
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