Of the many different schools young Henry James was sent to, the one he represented as most unusual in his memoir of childhood, A Small Boy and Others, was a private academy in Paris known as the Institution Fezandié. Located on rue Balzac in a section of Paris dominated by the Champs-Elysées and the Arc de Triomphe, the school offered an educational program "loose and vague," with little discipline and no sense of a "pursuit of abstract knowledge" (AU 205). It was James's impression that the man who ran it, M. Fezandié, was an ex-Fourierist and that his conception of the school was inspired by "a bold idealism" (AU 206). The physical plant included a "big square villa" (AU 205) and a pleasant "high-walled garden" (AU 206). The students were primarily interested in improving their French; they were "prevailingly English and American" (AU 206) of both sexes—"earnest ladies from beyond the sea" and "young Englishmen qualifying for examinations" who struggled to master the "idiom" (AU 208). There were also, "oddly enough, a few French boys" (AU 208). Although many of the foreigners boarded at the school as at a pension, James and two of his brothers attended as externes—day students present for the morning and the midday luncheon only. One of these brothers was almost certainly Wilky, two years younger than James. Whether the other one was William, the firstborn, or Bob, the fourth and youngest brother, is uncertain.