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    300 MADAME MARIE PAPE-CARPAISTTIER.

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    « Marie Cakpantiee -Was Born At La Fleeh...

    whole year round ! She -was slender and weakly , but necessity knows mo law !

    She had an immense desire to know and to learn , hut her mother had no means of satisfying * this thirst ; and lier ardor recoiled on

    herself , and devoured her with , silent grief . Submissive but unhappy , she nailed her will to each day ' s workand found at last a

    , new inspiration dawn upon her ;—that of poetry . This cMld did not even know that such a thing as a book of grammar existed

    ¦ when at the age of fourteen , fired by the memory of her father , she composed une ode d la gloire .

    What particularly fretted her in the manual labor to which she was consigned , was tlie impossibility of getting time to read or write

    or even of being alone so that she might think freely . This slavery , oppressed her to such a degree , and gave her such a thirst for

    independence , that tlie child used often to climb on to the roof of the house at the risk of her lifeand there sit under the eye of

    Heaven alone , in the comfortable , conviction that no one would come up after her !

    When Mademoiselle Carpantier had attained the age of nineteen , her mother sought an appointment for herself and her daughter to

    the direction of a Salle < P Asile , wMeh was about to be created for the first time at La Fleche , and which was virtually promised to them

    beforehand _^ owing to the high respect entertained for the memory of M . Carpantier . Marie felt herself ignorant ; and the solitude in

    which she had always lived had rendered her too timid , while her experience of the troubles of life had been too greatfor her to

    indulge much hope as to this new career . Nevertheless , , her mother wished it , and she obeyed , though her own aspirations had been

    very different , and tended toward an artist life . After a month ' s training in the Salle cVAsile of Manswhere they went to study the

    method used in the model institution , which had already been organized for a year by Monsieur and Madame Pape , the mother and

    daughter returned to organize the Salle d * Asile of La Fleche . Once fairly established in her new dutiesan extraordinary vocation for

    "teaching showed itself in Mademoiselle , Carpantier , which excited the most lively enthusiasm among her fellow-townspeople ; and on the

    secret of her poetical compositions coming out for the first time at the same moment , public sympathy surrounded the modest and

    youthful teacher . Marie found at last that her duty and her inclination coincided .

    She was called to observe , to think , and to act upon a subject worthy of all the pains she could bestowand she could moreover begin to

    study . , This being the first Salle _d'Asile opened in La

    FlecheMademoiselle Carpantier felt imperatively called on to make it succeed , . The task was heavy , for she had to learn everything while she was creating

    her results . But she entered into it bravely , for she had faith in God ,

    faith in progress , and faith in herself . She devoted herself , therefore ,

    300 Madame Marie Pape-Carpaisttier.

    300 MADAME MARIE _PAPE-CARPAISTTIER .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 300, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/12/