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    PROM PARIS. 263

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    - No. Ii. I Came Here For The Express Pu...

    moral and profli disorganisation te rei . of Louis The former Quinze attribute and secondl this , firstl y to y the to t times he _long of

    gagn , the abolished Revolution and Chr , when istianity for ridiculed half a generation and decried public throug worshi hout France p was .

    that They the say , men that the and population women who has are never the yet recovered living grand from this paren blow ts of ; and in of

    the cep absolu tible present te . public When generation irreli the g first ion were , Napoleon and born that the acquired bitter grew ecclesiastical supreme fruits up are a authorities power dail period y , per he

    recalled , from policy or conviction , the ; princi between ples whom which , and is going the on pop a t this tion hour , commenced in every qilarter the strugg of Paris le of . When the funds of the municipality and the influence of a religieuse

    combine in the hands of a woman like La Soeur Rosalie , they form the nucleus of far-stretching social while power . Her nep hew varied , M . Eugene tion

    R at endu the , Maison said to de me Secours two days which ago , she governed describing , ' Elle etait vraiment ac homme d ' etat" In a little cheap memoir I found this touching

    . cep sen tion tence in apropos aid ' of of irai o her thers inexhaustible ; ter ( i II d la etait Sein charity passe trouver en and proverbe quick Soeur -wi Rosalie dans tted per une 9 " -

    certaine _classeJ'me jee ou . the t Wha estimony matron t a pathetic to of her , character humour one of our there ! I metrop am is afrai in olitan those d none workhouses few would words say , ! and as much what of a

    any French It will Church be easil bear y unders more tood on the that irls the than * educational on the boys influences of the of lower the g

    vic deep classes tions ly ; in ac and terested tuall that _dejolorin in for education many t re ha , asons t in t . himse I coun heard lf tr o y f last t owns tron nig g th h Catholi t a female gentleman c con part

    of the popula , tion y were bein g educated by religieuses to such a point of intelligence and of refinement that they had become unsuitable

    as wives for the drinking , smoking , and swearing laborers and artisans t o w le hom and destin t y some wou th ld in inev o it f the y same allot them sort fl ! The hed idea throu rouses h a gmy

    mind as I walked ye through g the class-rooms of the Maison de Secours faces in the of Rue the St . D han omini int ernes ; an who d more are wholl ticular under ly as t I loo in k fl uence at th e f y

    the Sisters orp during their most _, impressionable years . Of the boys ' immense schools I effort have in as subjugating yet seen nothing much ; more but difficult it is very material certain must that be an

    is simultaneousl to become more y proceeding and more , unless a truth the . lamentation A few days of after my acquaint my visit ance to

    the Maison de Secours I went to see the Salle d ' Asile managed by Madam and havin e Pape heard -Carpantier of it in . Thi land s is I in came fact to a Pari normal s more infant particul school arly ;

    maiden bent on seeing name g this was than Mademoiselle , any Eng other institution Marie Carpantier . The directress , became , whose at the

    early age of nineteen mistress of an infant school at La Fl _& che , a

    Prom Paris. 263

    PROM PARIS . 263

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 263, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/47/