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    302 MADAME MARIE PAPE-CARPANTIER.

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

    them off tlieir victim , and knocked down the aggressors ! They narrowly escaped being tumbled into the moat hy this young heroine

    of fourteen . But as soon as she came in contact with little children , all the tenderness of her nature blossomed out like a plant in

    sunshine . Instead of the dark thoughts and fancies which her lonely childhood , and the image of her father assassinated before her

    birth , had nourished in her mind , gentleness and peace began to dawn in her heart , and to show themselves in her poetry . Marie

    Carpantier , when she quitted the asile , at the age of twenty-three , went to live with a widow f lady of La Fleche , named Madame

    Pion Noirie , whom the loss ochildren had thrown almost into despair . To console this lady was in itself a missionand Marie , threw herself into it with characteristic devotion .

    " Des _Aiix hoinmes coeurs desesperez attiedes relevez rendez les leurs croj esperances ances ,

    Sur le monde , a torrents , versez la verite ; , Et Sapez lacez l'iniquite vain jusque ueurs dan snr s leur ses racines trone , en mines repq

    "La justice , et l'huni , anite ! " Pour moi , timide enfant , dans la foule perdue ,

    Moi TJne dont tache la xnoins voix fiere sans nom est donnee se meurt a rnes inentendue jours ; , Moins fiere , mais plus douce ; et qui , de paix suivie ,

    Convient a ma faiblesse , et de mon humble vie Parfume le modeste cours : " Deux meres _k ' ckerirdeux amours a confondre

    , , Des Quel p ques leurs tardives a partager fleurs , d'amers a faire chagrins _eiDanoiiir a ; fondre , Proteger de mes mains une chere vieillesse ,

    Et puis tin , dep coeur 6 t sacre souffrant commis a rejouir a ma tendresse ; , " Voila tous mes destinstoute ma part de loire .

    Et quand je puis , scrutant , mes jours dans g ma memoire , Ketrouver sous mes pas quelques rares bienfaits , Quelques manx repares , quelques douleurs calmees ,

    Quelques vertus en moi nouvellement _germees , Tous mes desirs sont satisfaits ! " It was Madame Pion whoin 1841 besought Marie to allow her

    , , poems to be printed . They had already circulated in manuscript in the small country townand had been warmly welcomed—had even

    gained , in 1839 , without , the knowledge of the author , the , medal of the Congres _Scientifique de France , The little volume was entitled

    " Preludes" and appeared with a preface from , a well-known literary womanMadame Amable Tastu . It caused a vivid sensationwas

    the subject , of numerous articles in the daily papers , and showed , that there are exceptions to the truth of the proverb , No one is a prophet

    in his own country . "

    the In direction 1842 Mademoisell of the princi e Carpantier pal Salle d received } Asile in a Mans proposal , the n undertak under the

    302 Madame Marie Pape-Carpantier.

    302 MADAME MARIE _PAPE-CARPANTIER .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 302, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/14/