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OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT. 413
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4> Jan. I9t7i, 1862. Never L/A.Dies Was ...
like a peak over tlie forehead , as during lier excursions to tlie lake at Longchanipsshethis seasonalways wears a Tudor bonnetsaid
to be provided , b , y a certain milliner , in London , who rejoices , in a wide-spread reputation and the very unpretending name of Brown .
The lady represented with auburn curls in Winterhalter ' s celebrated picture of the Empress and her handsomest attendants wore a
black velvet bonnet which was grace and coquetry themselves , trimmed with the fur of Astrakan ; a pelisse of mauve-colored
velvet , a looped-up skirt of black moire antique , Andalusian _petticoat , crimson stockings , and a pair of tiny boots , trimined with the
same kind of fur as the bonnet , completed a costume , which in every-point , except the boots and bonnet , was not in very excellent
taste . But the wearer ' s handsome features and clear complexion defthe of ill-arranged colors to mar their effect . Foremost
deepest in the y group mourning power of beauties for the was victims Madam of e the Swci Warsaw ekowska massacr , wearing e , and the
g essay iving in way the to very her fashionable laughter-loving art of nature skating while . This making fair Pole her , who first
is said to have vowed never to divest herself of mourning garments till the day on which Polish nationality shall be a , fait accompli , "was
the centre of attraction at Longchamps and St . _James's , and took not the least pains to conceal the vivacious nature that showed
itself to everybody there , unshackled by any other restraint than "that of gracefulness . The Princess Anna Murat , so renowned for
her magnificent person , was , beside Madame Swciekowska , com-The ¦ p appear letel granddaug y thrown to such hter into great of the advantag Prince shade Joachim , e an upon d , it required the must ice be the as confessed upon support horseback , did of two not .
_tion gentlemen cheeks , , and did , jud not ging enjoy from a very a pair rap of id purp circulation le rather , or than her carna usual
amount of boisterous animal spirits . Mesdames Loenthal , Magnan , AritofF , and Rothschild , "were almost hidden in the
quantity of furs they wore , and comfortably seated in sledges , were idlpushed along by gentlemen in " skates . Troops of little boys
rap and girl y s , wearing these appliances , and perfectly at home in them , leted the animated icture . The severe winters whichduring
Eng some comp lish year and s , we Americans have had p have in P insp aris ired , as the well bourgeois as the and exam aristocrati ple , of the c
population here with the , idea of making skating as well as gymnastics a part of juvenile education . Trifling as this may appear ,
it is a very great step in the right direction . It has been too mucli the fashion over here to sacrifice the body ' s to the mind ' s
development , and by doing so to take greatly from the latter . Critics and preceptors have heretofore , in literature and the B . ne arts , insisted
on the youth of France too slavishly imitating the writers and the artists of ancient Greecewhile they neglected entirely all that
• made the ancient Greek , the highest type of humanity . They
i & eemed to be completely forgetful of the fact that rowing , swimming ,
Our French Correspondent. 413
OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT . 413
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 413, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/53/
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