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    16 MADAME DE GIHARDIN.

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    The From Lives The Social Of Certain Her...

    version of the Court-gossip of the time , a still more irregular liaison witli the King himself . The latter at length consented to

    allow the fair songstress to be presented to him ; but , so far from iving his sanction to the intrigues of his courtiers—intrigues which

    were g apparently quite unsuspected by their object—terminated the brief reception accorded to her , by thus addressing her : —

    " _Mademoiselle , you possess true poetic talent . I grant to you , from my privy purse , an annual pension of five hundred crowns .

    Take my advice ; seek for new inspiration in foreign travel . Paris isfor a more dangerous place than you imagine . "

    , As king you , ly " advice" is not to be neglected by those on whom it is bestowed , Madame Gay set out at once with her daughter on a tour

    through Switzerland and Italy . The fame of the young traveller had preceded her . "Wherever Delphine stoppedher grace and beauty

    , created a sensation which was often fully as embarrassing as flattering ; and she was received in Italy as a second " Gorinne . " At Home ,

    she was conducted in triumph to the Pantheon , where , in the presence of an immense crowd , composed of the most illustrious inhabitants

    of the Eternal City , she recited her "Hymn to St . Genevieve , " written for the occasion , and was crowned with flowers , and overwhelmed

    with showers of wreaths and bouquets , amidst the enthusiastic applause of the auditory , after which she was elected a member of

    the the During Academy pricipal her of of stay which the in Tiber was Italy . _" , Del The phine Last composed Day of Pompeii several other " written poems at ,

    , the foot of Vesuvius . She also finished , at Rome , the " Magdeleine , " the most important of her poetical productions , and one on which

    she had been at work for five years . "While on this tour , she made many valuable acquaintances ; the

    charms of her person and her brilliant conversational powers exciting , as usual , the admiration Familier of all de Literature who approached has recounted her . M . the de

    impression Lamartine , made in his upon " Cours him by the sight of his young " countrywoman , whom he fell in with at the Falls of Terni , and whose image seems the

    to have remained ever afterwards associated in his mind with rounded magnificence Not of a rock few , of water her , and Italian sky adorers with which would she fain was have then kept

    surthe fair . traveller in their own land ; but Delphine ' s affection for France amounted to a species of idolatryand she steadily refused

    the most brilliant matrimonial offersfrom , a patriotic determination to accord her hand to none but a Frenchm , an . Whatever interested for the exercise

    of her her , at rh this yming period powers of her ; and life , thi became s determination which at once she a addressed subject according to ly her furnished sister

    her with a motif for a new poem , , the Countess O'Donnell . We select two which to us among the most beautiful of

    the shorter pieces , and which appear will give the reader a fair idea of her

    powers .

    16 Madame De Gihardin.

    16 MADAME DE GIHARDIN .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/16/