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MADAME RECAMIER; 381
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— : » • ' ¦ I '.' Madame Recamiee's Retu...
her" appeared so long , and to me so short . I trust she felt no furto ther her effects Do not from forget it ; g to ive remember her my regards me to M , and . Ballanche express . my Farewell regrets ,
. my dear Juliette , believe in the constancy of my friendship . I can never forget the touching proof you have given me of Caroline yours .
". " _^ Madame Recamier returned to Paris in the month of Maybut
, briand owing to nor the the coronation Due Matthieu of Charles de Montmorency X ., found neither able to M receive . de Chateau her . -
mant Her , a niece young returned man of from great Ital abilit y betrothed y , whose to in proposals whom M . Charles she had found Lenor been
faithful heartily and sanctioned attached by friend Madame and Recamier relative , and whose grateful affection a , never failed
. But henceforth the record of Madame Recamier ' s life is a succession of losses . Timewhich had so marvellously spared her personal
weakened beauty , and the had neither , of her dimmed charm the did brilliancy not of her her friends triump . hs The nor spare
first who was calle power d away was Matthieu , de been Montmor named ency . He had of
the his seemed young in friends Due his usual de as Bordeaux a health worth , , an and tribute appointment had to just his honorable which was and governor hailed uprig b ht y y
in life . the many On church Good" Friday of St , Thomas the 24 th d of ' A March quin , his he knelt head before was bowed the altar in
. , him prayer were , and alarmed it was and not touching till it sank him lower found and he lower was no that more those . Thus near
, , his did earnest this pious Christian and true life -hearted —a death man which depart— has -a in well it - a fitting tinge close of the to
old chivalric charmwhich lent its stately and tender grace to his , character
His wife . whose sterncold manner hid the passionate devotion which she had , felt for him , was inconsolable ; she dedicated her life
tions henceforth we have were before to oured works noticed forth of , charit to her , Juliette sorrow y , and , Recamier , her under regret the who , strange her had tender power been recollec , as which she
well knew p the star of her husband ' s lifethe , object which , next to God Madame and his , de country Chateaubriand , had filled was his als soul o on . cordial , terms with Madame
Recamierand often claimed help and sympathy in her charitable , plans In 1828 from her Madam . e Recamier lost her father ; he died at a good
old age , having passed his last years near his beloved child . In the autumn of the same year M . de Chateaubriand hteen months went as
ambassador to Romeand remained there for eig . His letters were Madame , Recamier's chief interest during the time of affec
tion his absence and regard ; he . wrote He says to : her _"All constantl my life y seems and centered with unvary in those ing little -
Madame Recamier; 381
MADAME RECAMIER ; 381
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 381, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/21/
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