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    MADAME'MARIE PAPE-CARPANTIER. 303

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

    { _jharge of MM . Trouve , Chauvel , Serin , & c . At first slie refused . Her duties by the side of Madame Pionties of affectionand a project

    of marriage , which , was not realized , until seven years , later , knit her closely to La Fleche . Notwithstanding , she yielded to the

    _graye considerations which her friends placed before her . She left her native townher daily interestsand that sympathetic esteem of

    a population which , has known one from , childhood , of all others the most preciousand of which she felt the full value . She left sad at

    heartbut with , the feeling of a great duty accomplished , and the thanks , of the Administration of Mans were the first recompense of

    the step she had taken . Then it was , in the midst of her new functions , that Marie

    Carpantier realized her intention of writing a book upon JSattes cV Asile . To enable her to plead with justice and efficacy the cause

    of the little children , she had need of the continual inspiration of their the title presence of iC . Conseils The first sur part la Directio of this n des work Salles appeared d _? JLsile in . _" 1846 The , under "warm

    welcome it received from the public , and the honors paid to it by the Conseil Royal de V Universite , by the _Academic Frangaise , and hy

    the tSociete pour VInstruction Elementaire , confirmed her _hoj ) e that her heart and mind perceived traces of the truth In regard to this

    new and important subject . A very great change was now preparing In the life of

    Mademoiselle Carpantier—a change which developed the beloved heroine of a provincial town into one of the most distinguished and respected

    women of the brilliant metropolis of France . Since 1843 she had been acquainted with Madame Jules Mallet , an elderly lady

    belonging to the French Protestant communion , a nienaber of a wealthy commercial familyand aunt to M . de Salvandythen Minister of

    Public Instruction . , Madame Jules Mallet was herself , a member of the Commission Superieure des Salles _d'Asile ; she had formed a high

    esteem , a tender affection for Mademoiselle Carpantier , and she now , authorized by her nephew , summoned her young friend to Paris , to

    create and organize a normal school for the training of teachers for Salles d' ' Asileof which the want had long been felt . Mademoiselle

    Carpantier reache , d Paris with her mother , and settled in the house destined for the Ecole Nor male on the first day of spring , 1847 .

    TJie Ecole was to be created in a simple apartment rented in an ordinary houso situated Rue Neuve de St . PaulNo . 12 and

    without any space for an infant school . Madame , Mallet , furnished from , her own pocket everything that was indispensably necessary

    to this first establishment . One great room was divided by curtains into five little cells , which served as sleeping places for Rve boarders ;

    another room was allotted as a class room , and Mademoiselle Carpantier took upon herself the whole office of teacher . Nothing can

    give an idea of the _economy ( not to use another word ) which it was

    t necessary he midst of pover exert , ty , bo th t little he exi expedients gences of hyg by iene which and , each the di day gni , t y

    Madame'marie Pape-Carpantier. 303

    MADAME ' MARIE PAPE-CARPANTIER . 303

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 303, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/15/