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    264 FROM PAEIS.

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    provincial at the town end not of which far from time Angers her . health Here was she so -worked far shaken for four by

    incessant years , exertion that she was compelled to retire . An interval of another four years occurred , when the Government , which had long mistresses

    desired to form a normal school for the instruction of of her infant etirem schools entand , insisted lacing on drawing her at * the Mademoiselle head . After Carx considerable _^ antier from

    hesitation r she at , leng p th suffered herself to be persuaded , and found herself installed in a large house in the Hue des Ursulines , far away ils

    " in boarding the southern on the faubourg premises . of The Paris classes , with are twenty also -five attended grown b up y several pup

    reli M gieuses first of visit different was active paid at orders ten . o ' clock in the morning , at which

    hour y the children , boys and girls , come trooping in . They appeared seventy to I have range yet in from number seen three , was . to large The seven , salle lofty years , like , well of all age li French ghted ; and , and school to be well - from rooms ventilated sixty which to .

    At one end was a raised amphitheatre , on the topmost seat of which were marshalled ranged at the the pup other il-teachers end of and the the room Sisters and ; the went children throug wer h a e

    series of evolutions at the command of a , brisk clever mistress . them the Dur amp ing a long hitheatre the last recitation , hour while , first they the wi on teacher th were one moral all subject sitting seated advice , or then on and standing the on lower another in benches front address ; telling gave of

    ing attention them , or stories rather to droop , int attacking erspersed , and keep , one ing child the whole after another little party , never questions alert allo and win , amused g their - .

    The listening It was lesson very with -time well all began done their . and mi During g ende ht ; d and this with many time a short the of prayer pup them il- , te taking and achers at twelve notes -were .

    o ' clock the children all turned out to dine and play . So far the routine was essentially that of our own infant schools , ive

    _Tbut of on a my course secon of d Legons visit Pedagog I heard iques Madam to the e Pape il -Carp -teachers antier , which g

    • one seen was an before experience . It was quite an extempore apart from address anything of pup I an had hour ever ' s duration heard or , illustration

    which delivered rendered with a precision it a master of - language iece in its and way a . facility The twenty of -five in- ,

    mates and _Rve religieuses listened p with the deepest attention , smiling occasionally at the happy similes and anecdotes introduced by the

    ¦ speaker was a general , and seeming sketch of thoroug education hly considered to comprehend as a science the subj and ect ideas , an which art .

    think bearing The the training lecture of with thirty comprised of them -one little the women children all seeds the going of most , a and forth new modern it moral was from and a that and cheering enli kindl intellectual ghtened y reflection instruction life for on to ,

    the masses into every asile under their charge . The children at this school pay nothing , but look very clean and tidy ; they belong

    fco the families of respectable laborers ov artisans .

    264 From Paeis.

    264 FROM _PAEIS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/48/