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    98 THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN FRANCE.

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    painted and often by sang Madame 1 to the Lebrun royal party . She , by was whom gifted she with was receive a d y quite as a friend . In her own salon she received the most distinguished distin

    the guished society evenings , men counting , and to societ celebrated among y . Until its beauties members the . great , The princes and and days , terrible successful she princesses devoted revolution , life to art but - ,

    broke out in Franceshe led this brilliant , then the very honors , she enjoyed , her her familiarit life and y she with the obli royal ged

    to famil fly land y . and Her and the reputation aristocracy had , endangered others preceded she painted her everywhere the portrait , was she of went Miss to Engamong many

    Pitt as Heb , ewhich portrait was considered her chef d _' ceuvre . At les she painted , Lord Nelson ' s LadHamilton as a Bacchante .

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    Berlin Catherin , and receive St . d Petersburg her with especial h ; at the distinction latter cap and ital gave the her Empress a suite

    e , received of apartment did not s in produce an imperial the least palace effect . upon All her the hard flattery working _'which and she

    to simp her le own character dearl . At beloved the end Paris of nine and years resumed ' exile she her returned position again as a

    fashionable portrait y painter . She , restoration painted all she the women honored of with the

    the sittings Buonap Duchesse arte from famil the de y Bourlbons Berri , and under and . it In the was 1824 evident she made her a was lovel power y portrait had not of

    diminished . In her ei , ghtieth year she continued to paint , and she terminated a long and successful life in 1842 , being female nearly student ninety .

    showing Such , an how examp a combination le must encourage of hard work every and youn talent g , without fortune ; , without family influence , may raise a woman artist to one of the

    hig There hest social have positions been in Prance in the world a large . class of women who have land

    allude held great to those power women , of a who kind have almost been unknown centres in of Eng society , : and we

    who have collected round them distinguished and powerful men literary and all the women literature judgment ; women and s were art who passed of have the upon held day . a books Th kind . e French , of plays social , call pictures court this , , to in where hold fact

    a salonandin the days when there were no newspapers , the influence , which , these ladies exercised , is better represented to the editor

    Eng and lish critic mind than b any y the thing idea else of . that One wielded lad Gazette y was by a a another newspaper sort of Madame Madame

    Athenaeumanother a Madame Literary , a wom Saturday an of Heview , society , we and wil so l on tak . e As Madam the type e _GoefFrin of what , because we will she call had the

    no artificial aids to give her influence , slie was not beautiful , nor

    98 The Position Of Women In France.

    98 THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN FRANCE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 98, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/26/