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    306 LA SCEUR ROSALIE.

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    them perished by the dread disease . One only was _attacked , and she singularlh was the onlone who had not actually come

    y enougy in contact with cholera , having been confined to the house with an injury to her leg which made it impossible for her to move ! During

    this time of public distress , her auxiliaries from other parts of the town did not fail La Soeur Rosalie . The young men of the society

    of St . Vincent de Paul came to the rescue , and several of these were sent bher to factories out of Parisespecially to those at

    Montataire , y in the diocese of Beauvais , whose , bishop some time afterwards came to thank her for the timelassistance to his decimated

    and terrified flock . It was at this time y that the asylum for children who had lost both father and mother was founded in the Rue

    Pascal . A charitable lady named Madame Mallet , enabled the Sister to carry out this plan , which is still flourishing , and bears marks of

    the In intellect the other which scene presided s of public at its panic birth so . fatally known to the

    inhabitants of Paris—revolutionary riots—La Soeur Rosalie exercised a no less remarkable ascendancy . She had no sympathy with

    promises of liberty which dawned in bloodshed , and it will easily be conceived that the turmoils which stopped trade , cut off profits , and

    diminished the incomes of the better classes , invariably caused deadly distress in the Faubourg Saint Marceauwhere tlie population lived

    from hand to mouth , and any check to their , fragile industry touched at once upon their vital resources . If a revolution miscarries , it

    is the people who are shot and imprisoned , and even if it succeeds , it is long before the workman can recover from the shock given to

    the commonest functions of society ; capital is frightened away and are not forthcomingand it is a chance ifwhen the day of

    victory wages comes , the man of the , people does not find , himself reduced to the pauper ' s estate . La Soeur Rosalie therefore very naturally threw

    all her influence on to the side of order , and so great had it become during the long years of her benevolent lifethat government itself

    recognised her power , and looked to her intervention , as the best guarantee against riots . In 1830 and 1848 , this singular woman

    traversed the narrow streets where even the soldiery and police dared not entercalling the le to orderstopping the erection of

    barricades , and , making them peop replace the paving , -stones which were in the course of being uprooted . She saved more than one proscrit

    from popular fury ; and when the churches were menaced , and the archbishop's palace taken by assault and demolishedand the

    , priests insulted in the streets , she opened her house to the latter and kept them safe under her protection . One of those she

    thus hid was Monseigneur de Quellen _, who was obliged to fly from his episcopal chair at Notre Dame , and only re-appeared when

    the cholera summoned him to adopt the orphan children of the men who had persecuted him . La Sceur first heard of the

    very sack from a pauper to whom she had offered bread the previous

    © vening *; he refused it , saying "Ma Scour , we dont want alms ;

    306 La Sceur Rosalie.

    306 LA SCEUR ROSALIE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/18/