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    MADAME DE GIRARDIN. 15

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    The From Lives The Social Of Certain Her...

    of distinguished personages executed by him in bas-relief thereupon . We give the reader the benefit of these verses , though we can discover

    no particular inspiration therein : — _STANCES SUB , LA _MORT DTJ GE _1 _STEKAL FOY .

    Pleurez , Frangais , pletirez ! la patrie est en deuil ; Pleurez le defenseur que la niort vous enleve ;

    Et vous , nobles guerriers , sur son muet cerciieil Disputez-vous l'honneur de deposer son glaive ! Vous ne l ' entendrez plusl ' orateur redoute

    , Dont l'injure jamais ne souilla 1 'eloquence ; Celui qui , de nos rois respectant la puissance , En fidele sujet j _> arla de liberte :

    Le ciel , _hii decernant la sainte recompense , A commence trop tot son immortalite ! Son bras liberateur dans la tombe est esclave ;

    Son front pur s'est glace sous le laurier vainqueur , Et ce signe sacre , cette etoile du brave , _Ke sent plus palpiter son coeur .

    Hier , quand de ses jours la source fut tarie , La France , en le voyant sur sa couche etendu ,

    Implorait un accent de cette voix clierie ... Helas ! au cri plaintif jete par la patrie C ' est la premiere fois qu'il n'a pas repondu !

    The Duchesse de Duras , anxious to turn to the benefit of her young favorite the sensation created by this poj ) ular effusion ,

    generously brought her influence to bear on her behalf , by writing to M . de Lourdoueix—then Director of _belles-lettres under the

    Minister of the Interior—to solicit for " a young girl full of grace , witand talentsthe author of the episode of St . Camillacrowned

    by , the Academy , , and now engaged in writing another poem , , a sort of French Messiadein which the most touching religious sentiments

    , are rendered with a great power of expression , and a degree of poetic talent far superior to anything yet seen in a woman , a small

    pension ; which to one in her position , " added the Duchess , _" would be a most valuable assistance . "

    What the kind-hearted pleader understood by a " French Messiade" it is not very easy to determine , though it may probably

    have been some glorification , d la Frangaise _, of the " civilizing mission" which our neighbors are so fond of attributing to themselves

    , and of whose nature , instruments , and aim , they occasionally startle the rest of the world with such very uncomfortable indications .

    However this may be , it does not appear that the Director of Belles-lettres was moved to the granting of the Duchess ' s prayer .

    But other and less judicious admirers had sounded the praises of Delphine _' s charms and talents within the precincts of the Court ,

    and in the ears of the monarch ; and had officiously suggested the idea of a morganatic marriage between the brilliant young beauty

    and the King's brother , the Cointe d'Artois _; or , according to another

    Madame De Girardin. 15

    MADAME DE GIRARDIN . 15

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/15/