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    300 MADAME RECAMIER.

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    She fixed distance upon from Chalons . Paris -sur-Marne as her , first which lace was of at residence precisely the It necessary

    was of the at the best and a melancholy change , for her p , but the neighborhood .

    Due Duchesse de Doudeauville , ( connexions of the Montmorency family , ) the society of the Prefect of the town , and a few others , occasional visits from her friendsand the care of her

    interesting little adopted child , made her pass , the eight months of her She residence washowever at Chalons at last with persuaded content if to not remove with p to leasure L . -where

    many members , of her , husband ' s family lived , besides several yons , of her friends and acquaintances ; some among them were also suffering

    sentence of exile from Paris , but fretting against their fate with a useless regretto which Madame Reeamier ' s calm and resid

    character was , a stranger . gne In Madame _Delphina younger sister of her husband ' sshe had

    not only a friend and companion , , but one under whose superintend , - enceand at whose suggestionher charitable heart found its best

    consolation , in ministering to others , . Madame Delphin was indeed an instance of how much can be performed when a life is devoted to the

    cause of charity . All classes of sufferers , —the poor , the sick , and the abandoned—found help , advice , and comfort from her . Her time ,

    her patience , her money , seemed alike inexhaustible , and perhaps were so , because the tender compassion which prompted her to

    relieve all , created an almost miraculous ingenuity in providing the means . She was truly one of those many worthdisciles of St .

    Vincent de Paul who were already carrying into effect y his p charitable plans throughout France . We can easily understand that she found

    Madame Kecamier a sympathizing ally in her works of mercy . Among the more notable names of those who were at this time

    residing at Lyons , and whose society made it pleasant to Madame Hecamier , we must note Madame de Seraiesy , whose grief at the

    death of her only daughter , and regret at possessing no likeness of her , roused in her a new and remarkable talentshe succeeded

    showed in modelling a power a bust only of requiring her child exercise , which to was be not very ; onl remarkable y like , but .

    She , thenceforward , devoted herself to sculpture , and though her want of early training may be noticed in the small technicalities of

    art , her productions are nevertheless very excellent , and show a refinement and sentiment which more than redeem the defects .

    We need only mention the names of Canaille Jordan , and Talma ; and we must not pause to say more of the _capricious and fascinating

    Duchesse de Chevreuse , one of the band of exiles , than , that her failing health and spirits , as well as her talent and amiability , excited

    both the sympathy and interest of Madame Kecamier , and they were much together . But her mother-in-law , the eccentric Duchesse de

    Luynes , stands out from the group , and attracts our attention more forcibly _; she was simple and unaffected in character , and yet

    original in appearance , manner , and pursuits . Her voice was harsh ,

    300 Madame Recamier.

    300 MADAME RECAMIER .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 300, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/12/