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    OUR, PBENCH CORRESPONDENT, 273

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    * Ladies Paris, May 17th, 1862. Mination...

    Tliese gay-looking ladies and gallant cavaliers were all going to hear an Office called JDes Tenebres chanted by Mdlle . Lemaurewitli even

    , less devotional feeling than Paris feels _when hurrying off to hear [ Rossini ' s celebrated Stab at chanted at St . Eustache . Without Mdlle .

    Leraaurethe Office in question _woLild not have greatly interested the gay crowd , that went to hear it . That centre of attraction was a

    favorite public singer who suddenly became disgusted with her profession , retired to the convent of Chaillot how , but finding would it too ri suit gid

    in her its . That disci reli pline ious , decided house was upon entir trying elwhat answered Longchamp an actress who was not altogether g tired of the world y although she was tired of

    , the theatre and jealous of Mdlle . Clairon _' s reputation . From the time of its foundation it had , unless at rare intervals , enjoyed a

    rather worldly rep _\ _itation for a convent ; and at one particular period greatlscandalized the truly devout Mere _Angeliqiie , the

    y the Superior date of of P its orte foundation Koyale , and till sister an earl of y the _j _^ eriod celebrated of the Pascal fifteenth . From

    century of the , it Order did not of , however St . Francis , set but a very ostensibl bad examp y followed le to the the other rules houses

    prescribed by him . Henry IV , . frequently left off hunting wolves in the Bois de Boulogne , to breakfast with the Nuns living" in its

    outskirts . Anne of Austria , during her young days , was the means of introducing a still greater laxity of discipline . Shortly after she

    first took refuge there from sundry domestic torments inflicted on her bLouis XIII . the sisters adopted the custom of wearing

    jewels y and colored clothes , instead of the habits in which they made their vowsThis innovation was followed by another still more

    . . obnoxious to the religious world of that day , for the nuns discovered that it was no sin to take walks outside the precincts of the Convent , St

    or to receive gay courtiers of either sex in their parlor . . "Vincent de Paul deplored these deflections in a long letter to the

    Archbishop a stop to such of practices Paris , who as , he acting judged on to the be advice scandalou given s to in reli it , gion put .

    took But during place , the Longchamp early part becam of the e rei gayer gn of than Louis line it till had Quatorz it ever e , been dissolved a relapse , and

    treated very lightly the Franciscan discipwas by " the When Revolution Mdlle . Leniaur . e retired to it , a number of the habitues of

    the Opera went to hear her sing in the chapel . This so greatly and pleased according the Superior ly did all that in drew she her from determined power the to choruses fill to outrival the of choir the the with stage fine b ,

    voicessome of which she opera y where means , it of was higher considered wages . " This oriinal rivalry and became amusing knpwn . " The in the leaders salons of ,

    fashion became curious to hear g the voices of the conventual troupe , and fancied that they could by going there during the Holy Week not

    t age th serve eir new their spring souls , t but oilettes find . an opportunity of showing to advan-

    Our, Pbench Correspondent, 273

    OUR , _PBENCH _CORRESPONDENT , 273

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/57/