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    MADAME MARIE PAPE-CARPANTIER. 305

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

    capable of seconding the benevolent ideas of Government in regard to primary instruction .

    Such is the simple history of a good woman ' s life , as furnished hy the authentic papers which have been placed in my hands . It

    will be permitted me to say a few words out of my own personal knowledge regarding an institution whose main influence must

    necessarily flow from the personal character of its head , although it is somewhat difficult to do so without trenching on the domain of

    private friendship . The house whence fresh swarms of teachers are yearly sent to all parts of France is situated in the Rue des Ursulines , beyond the

    Pantheon , and near the confines of Paris on its south side . It is an interesting spot from the memories associated with the religious

    houses congregated round about in past days . The Ursuline convent which _g-ave its name to the street is now destroyed , but a dwelling

    now used as a school was once the house of English Benedictines , where part of the remains of James the Second were buried , he

    having bequeathed his head , heart , and other portions of his mortal frameto the British Colleges . Close by is the Church of St .

    tion Jacques to , the du munificence Haut-Pas , of which Anne -was de Bourbon greatly , in the debted famous for D its uchesse

    erecde Longueville . Over the door of No . 10 , Rue des Ursulines hangs a Government flagwhich may guide the steps of any curious visitor . A _porie

    cockere , leads into a small court ; to the left is a door which o _| _3 ens into the main body of the house and to the private dwelling

    ( _apartemenf ) of Madame Pape-Carpantier ; in face is a glass door leading into the large schoolrooms and the court used as a

    playground for the little children . Here may usually be seen any number of tiny creatures , some of them barely firm on their legs ,

    rolling , tumbling , running , playing , laughing , or eating their dinnerswhich are brought in baskets . This is the infant school

    in which , , the teachers are trained . For instance , we will suppose it is the hour for lessons , and the English visitor has been admitted

    as a favor , by Madame Pape , into the great room , with raised steps rising dren are nearl all y h seated alf way on to this the estrade ceiling at staring one end 1 intelli . The gentl small y at chil the

    teacher who stands in the middle of the , room ; on the topmost seat , above the childrensit the pupil-teachers from the Departments ,

    , among whom are usually to be seen a few black-robed figures , — sisters "from one or other of the educational orders , who wish to

    qualify themselves for their duties by passing through this course . All the t 6 p row have note books in their hands . The lesson begins :

    a young teacher stands facing the estrade , and tells the children storiessometimes from Scripturesometimes from history ,

    sometimes from , domestic life , which she , helps out by numerous pictures , and of which she frequently makes the little ones supply the details .

    It is to be remembered that the scholars are of the ve ? y smallest

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    Madame Marie Pape-Carpantier. 305

    MADAME MARIE PAPE-CARPANTIER . 305

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 305, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/17/