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    THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN FRANCE. 97

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    She was born at _Saumur in 1651 and died in 1720 ; she was the , daughter of the _celebrated and learned Professor Lefevre . From

    her childhood she showed the greatest taste for study . As a young * girl she was so well acquainted with ht she the had history lived and in the literature of

    Greece , that one would have thoug country , talked the language , and joined in all the religious ceremonials and customs of the people . She had studied all the authors , married

    from Homer to those who wrote after Christ . She a M . Dacier , who was a pupil of literature her father ' s This , a good scholar made and par le

    remarkable ticularl say that y Latin learned _was was a in Greek united Roman edition to Greek with . . a Of French her marriage _piiblications translation , of the peop a most poet

    , called Callimachus , who lived three centuries before Clirist and was lations entirely of unknown the most to beautiful the European dramas world of Aristop . She hanes also published , and the whole

    transworks of Homerthe Iliad and the * Odyssey , ( more than two thousand she eight naturalised hundred verses Homer , , ) enri in France ched with . Sli , exp e lanatory enjoyed the notes rep . utation In short of ,

    but being as a she leader the was most in distinguished learned Greek Her , like salon scholar most was other in a meetin Europe French , and w lace _^ onien not for onl of the genius y that best , , society g p

    . hi societ hest y in aristocrats France . were Princes happy of the to be blood admitted often into visited her her circle , and . She the

    was g modest as well as learnedand it was impossible to find a trace of affectation in her manners , and conversation . She was a lady of

    library perfect . breeding Even that in her bitter drawing critic - the room Due , and de a St learned . Simon student has paid in her her

    the and hi mother ghest tribute she was of erfect praise . . Few In the women triple led rdle so of comp daug lete hter a life , wife as ,

    p Madame We will Dacier now , take she and the her type works of the are painter an hon woman or to France . We . might

    choosewill instantlthinkMademoiselle Rosa Bonheur , but we purposel , you choose another y whose , life is accomplished . Marie Louise

    Elizabeth artistand y Vi until gnet she was was born , thirteen in 1755 she . had Her the father advant was a well of - his known _inage

    money struction , , entirel , but y at to that dep earl end y up age on her he died own , resources and she . was But She left her continued courage without and resolution equal to her difficult position .

    were earl her Rubens y studies age , Rembrandt in , painting painting , and much life Vand sized in y the ke portraits . house She , was copy of young very ing successful th e irls picture . is When under at s an of

    she was only twenty she married M . Lebrun , and it the name of Madame Lebrun that she enjoys a world-wide reput and ation after . exhibiting She very a rap few idly successful attained eminence ictures she in was her sent profession for to ,

    p paint Marie Antoinette , and succeeded so well that she was engaged to paint the portraits of all the royal family . The portrait

    of Marie Antoinette was so much admired that more than twenty-

    The Position Of Women In France. 97

    THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN FRANCE . 97

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/25/