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    12 MADAME DE GIRARDIN.

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    The From Lives The Social Of Certain Her...

    as Madame de Girardinwas born on the twenty-sixth , of January , residence 1804 , in the and burial picturesque -lace , of old Charlemagne town of Aix on -la- whose Chapelle tomb , the she favorite is said

    to mother have . been Her bap parents tized p , were the Marquise at in that the time de then Custine in , French easy standing circumstances Department as her of , god and the

    father occup Kh . ur , ied held of a which respectable the post Aix-la of position -Chapelle Receiver was -General the , chef the -lieu emoluments , and in which of which her

    were The very famil considerable y of M . Gay . consisted of his wife , Madame herself Sophie Gay

    — markabl daughter y beautiful of the beautiful woman , — Francesca one in Al son , and Peretti of four , wound and daughters received . a The re at

    son the O'Donnell entered siege of the Const hew army antine of , and the ; present died of the First dau geria g Minister hters , , a one of Sp married ain ; another Count nep

    married Delhine M , married . de Canclos the w ; _^ the ell-known third married political M writer . Garre , M ; . the Emile fourth de ,

    p , Oirardin was Madame exceeding . Sop ly hie clever Gay , was witt not y , showy only renowned , and in the ambitious for best her ; beaut was y societ ; much she

    of addicted the day to . literature An ardent , and admirer mingled of calle freel Madame d y forth de the Stael virulent literary , whose hostilit well y -

    _. known romance" Delhine" had y the of Parisian work and critics its , , authoress Madame p , so Gay violentl had taken y decried up the ; and pen it to was defend the

    induced approbation her which to cultivate had followed a talent , which this , her she first had , literary previousl effort y allowed , that with

    to lie dormantbut which she henceforth exercised , equal success , on other , subjects . the It was in remembrance authoress of this whose incident first ,

    and also in in the comp domain liment of to imaginative distinguished creation she had generously essay defendedthat Madame Gay bestowed the name of Delphine on her

    youngest temp Unfortunatel tation , daug to say hter y for a . sharp her famil thing y , ; Madame and in this Gay way could she never often resist alienated the

    her best and most useful friends . At a certain unlucky evening part humor y , the brilliant freel wife at the of the Receiver of the -General Prefect indul of the ged Rhur her satirical and his expense

    lady to the the Prefect . Minister Her very , imprudent furious of y the at Interior witti this cisms impertinence an were indignant at , once lost protest no reported tim against e in to transmitting the the Prefe wife ct of ; immediatel

    his subordinate ; and the Receiver-General was y deprived of Monsieur his post by and the Madame Minister . Gay now all her removed with their but in children vainto to

    Pariswhere the latter exerted ingenuity , , mollif , y the ministerial displeasure excited by the unruliness of her tongue after his , and return to obtain to Pari another sMonsieur appointment Gay died for j and her his husband widow . , b Soon eing

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    12 Madame De Girardin.

    12 MADAME DE _GIRARDIN .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/12/