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    304 MADAME MARIE PAPE-CAKPANTIER.

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

    of tlie infant institution before the public were satisfactorily provided forThe active and orderly mind of Madame Jules Mallet

    . bent itself to resolve each problem , and she was the providence of the school for a year before the "breaking * out of the insurrection

    of This February political , 1848 event . brought the greatest trouble on Mademoiselle

    Carpantier . The public officials of every kind were suddenly dispersed . M . de Salvandy , upon whose good offices the normal school

    judiciall are depended even y , yet b efore too , in the recent common new to auth with allow orities all us the . to But other dwell the Ministers on agi thi tat s io , period ns summon of 1848 of ed a

    career which is now being worked out in Paris under the official sanction of the present Government . Our English readers will

    understand the reserve necessary to be kept on many points , when the names and fortunes of living individuals are inextricably

    involved in the history of such a time . To the troubles incidental to and suddenl political hatred broug , changes lowering ht from were over a added provincial the young those department caused and talented by private into woman the jealousies sp thus here

    of Parisian y employes and the arena of literary fame . A knot of in peop every le , possessed possible of way onl ; y thwarting too much power her plans , combined for the to school harass , and her

    But attacking Mademoiselle her with Carpantier personal showed slander a firmness of a shameful of mind , descri a stren ption gth . and constancy of iritand a steadfast power of daily conductwhich

    gave her enemies sp the , lie at every turn . She made no answer , to accusations unworthy of the notice of such a woman ; but fixing

    was her eye the s on wei the ht task of before her character her , she that let the even storm in pass Paris by , : it and at such last _,

    muttered and g died away , leaving her , in the high unquestioned position she now occupies in public and arried private esteem . to the

    and In Mad 1846 am , Mademoiselle e Pape who wer Carp e mentioned antier m as having M . Pap organized e , son a Salle M . _d'Asile in her native province . M . Papefilswas an officer in the

    African army , having taken service in Algeri , a in _, the hope of obtaining advancement sufficient to enable him to realize a marriage on which

    his heart had been set for ten years—ever since his early youth . The short married duration happ . In iness 1858 so long Madame delayed Pape was lost destined her husband to have after but a a

    fati long gues and of painful his military illness life , whose . Two seeds sweet had little been _daiig laid hters amidst remained the live

    to herand her devoted mother , Madame _Carpantier , yet s , an , inmate At this of her present household time Madam , in extreme e Pape old is directrice age . of the work which

    the tain wise The foresi instit ght ution of Government bears the name has allowed of Cours her Prati to create que des and Salles

    _susd'Asile . . It enjoys full prosperity , and yearly sends home into their

    several departments excellent mistresses of infant schools , perfectly

    304 Madame Marie Pape-Cakpantier.

    304 MADAME MARIE PAPE-CAKPANTIER .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 304, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/16/