This chapter argues that in neither of the profiles appearing in the Bordeaux does Dede claim to have matriculated at the Conservatory of Paris, but he does identify his teachers. The musicians he named lend weight to the possibility that his talent caught the attention of the faculty. To the author of an article, which appeared in L'Artiste de Bordeaux, Dede named three faculty members with whom he studied in Paris in the late 1850s. He began with the composer Adolphe Adam, who died the same year, but not before recommending Dede to the composer Jacques-Fromental Halévy. Meanwhile, in 1855, a year before Dede began studying with him, Eugene Delacroix wondered how the man got any work done.