Herr Berg, who had taken Croelius’s place as her instructor, admitted to Jenny Lind that he had no more to teach her. Then Signor Giovanni Battista Belletti, who was afterwards to accompany her to America, came to Stockholm from Italy and joined the Royal Theater company. Jenny Lind admired the technical features of this baritone’s voice, and when asked where he learned his technique, Belletti replied, “At Paris under Garcia.” Manuel Garcia was the most celebrated maestro of Europe; Jenny Lind determined to visit him, and in July, 1841, she left for Paris with a female companion. Soon after her arrival in Paris, Jenny Lind called upon Garcia. He was the brother of Mme. Malibran and Mme. Viardot, the two most famous divas of the day, and his reputation as a teacher was unsurpassed. He listened to Jenny Lind sing scales and the _Perche non ho_ of _Lucia_. She broke down completely. The strain of an extended concert tour in Sweden, which she made in order to get enough money to live in Paris, and the excessive number of performances at the Royal Theater since she had discovered her voice, had chosen this vital moment to reveal their effect. Garcia said, “Mademoiselle, vous n’avez plus de voix.” He did not say what was later attributed to him by some newspapers, “Mademoiselle, you have no voice,” but, “Mademoiselle, you no longer have a voice,” which was bad enough. The shock was a terrible one, and in great distress Jenny asked Garcia what she could do to recuperate. He told her not to sing a note for six weeks, to talk as little as possible, and then to visit him again, when he would decide if he could take her as a pupil. She spent the six weeks learning Italian and refurbishing her French, for she knew that eventually she would sing in those languages. The rest of the days she listened to the agonizing melody of the Paris street vendors, and the two themes which afterwards remained in her head were, “Haricots, haricots, verts!” and “Ah, le vitrier!” Mme. Ruffiaques, at whose _pension_ Jenny Lind boarded, wrote in a letter that “she scarcely could have believed such dignity of conduct possible in a young person coming alone to Paris.”