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306 MADAME MARIE PAPE-CARPANTIER.
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« Marie Cakpantiee -Was Born At La Fleeh...
description , and that the lessons are such as would naturally be printed by good the deal livel in of y words dram laughter of atic one and talent syllable very of the ; small but French j they oking are teacher adap made ted , and very to there the amusing very is a
small capacities . I have often become quite excited in following these lessons , hearing Hyppolite , aged four , brought to confess , by
a series of adroit cross questions , that the cow with the crumpled horn is not a vegetable production , and seeing Angelique , who
wears a quaint little linen cap on her sunny hair , hold up a stiff indignant riht hand because Gaston has taken it into his head
that windmills g are moved by horses . The pictures and toys which assist these simple lessons are always cleverly contrived , * in some
cases models of invention . Presently , Angelique , who is five years ensues of old , a and troop great occup of marching ies girls a , post and and of Jean di stump gnity trots ing as off monitor and with stamp , the files ing boys off and , at and the sing there head ing ,
the all done room decentl in little y and knots in , which order , represent until the , children their classes are , . ranged I need down not
further describe the ordinary management of a good infant school . It isof courseofficered by its own regular teachersas Madame
Pape , 's time is , much taken up by the instruction required , by the women who are her especial chargeand of whomI believe ,
young three relays pass through the house in , every year . , Five-andtwenty of these young women sleep and board in the house , and the
religieuses who come in to attend the classes make up the number to I thirt have y or twice thereabout attende . d a legon pedagogiqueor lecturegiven by
Madame Pape to these grown-up pupils . This , takes , place in a large room on the first floor , well fitted-up with desks . The young
women sit each at their post , while their mistress , whose power of exposition amounts to geniusspeaks to them extempore from her
chair , unfolding the principles , of a science , developing the resources of an idea , analyzing the moral and intellectual requirements of the
little children who will be confided to them , and treating whatever subject she has in hand with such a subtle and forcible eloquence ,
that I wondered as I listened , if her pupils were themselves advanced h to understand the teaching of the remarkable mind which
" enoug was thus pouring out its wealth for their instruction . It only remains to speak of Madame Pape-Carpantier _' s literary
workswhich have met with a large measure of success . First in order , come the " Prdludes" a collection of poems which obtained
, , "while yet in manuscript , the silver medal of the Congres Scientifique de France in the seventh sessionheld at Mans in 1839 . There is
a tender beauty about these verses , which reminds one of the music ¦ of the Eolian harp . One of them" Un Convoi" was extracted for
publication in this Journal in the , month of May . (& Paris chez
Perrotin In 1846 . ) appeared the tc Conseils sur la Direction des Salles _d'Asile _, "
306 Madame Marie Pape-Carpantier.
306 MADAME MARIE PAPE-CARPANTIER .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/18/
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