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    14 MADAME DE GIEARDIN.

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    their hase respective of social salons intercourse , the last now refuge numbered of the , brilliant among the traditions things of of a

    the — p Chateaubriand _XDast . Beranger who , who declared likened her her smile shoulders to be that to those of an of angel Venus

    —Bfrom whom , the charms of her wit and beauty won praises of yron her , verses which the misanthropic bard refused to those of Chato her the

    teaubriand—and Gerardwho rendered nattering homage and adulation of his pencil that proclaimed — -wer , e but ' their the leaders young of favorite the chorus to be of one praise of

    the three most beautiful women of the Paris of that day , the Duchess de Guiche ( now Duchess de Gramont ) and Comtesse d'Agoult ( more

    widel other y " known briht by _particular her pseudonym stars" of of that Daniel mundane Stern heaven ) being . the two g

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    panied mitting e its her presentation poem to the jud with gment a distinct of that intimation learned body that , had its accom author - received the unani

    mous declined plaudits to compete of the for jud this ges , prize and an . The " Honorable poem mention , " couched

    inscribed in the most in the flattering annals of terms the Academy , was awarded . A number to its of author other poems , and in licand of

    followe these the d this " Verses first appearance on the Death of the of General young poetess Foy" was pub the most _; adthe innacle of

    miredand raised their author at once to very ppublic favor to recall . , It the is circumstances necessary , indeed under , in which this these latter verses half of were the produced century , , enthusiasm created

    in order to understand the whirlwind of they , breadth and his by coffin which of the was they land lowered were . Head caug into at ht its up the last and grave resting carried of - the place over illustrious in the the length cemetery soldier and ,

    as of Pere La Chaisethese verses were printed immediately after the funeraland commanded , a sale which realized four thousand francs ;

    while iven the the , appellation young poetess of the , to " whom Tenth Muse her , _acjmirers " was now had lauded previousl to the y

    such g skies universal as " La Muse accep de tance la Pa were trie engraved " General The verses on the which monument and had the met scul subse with

    -David quently introduced erected to a the portrait memory of of their young Foy author j into the group ptor , ,

    14 Madame De Gieardin.

    14 MADAME DE GIEARDIN .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/14/