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10 BIANCA MILESI MOJOST.
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The original memoir of Bianca Miiesi Mojon was -written by Entile Souvestrea Frenchliterary man of considerable eminence ,
who died in 1854 , . By birth , a Breton , he was remarkable for the Incorruptible honesty indigenous in la vielle Bretagne . Kindness of
heart , and rigid devotion to duty , were his great characteristics , and the Parisian writer , untainted by any of the turbulent £ ( dissipations
of the capital , was nicknamed by a witty critic as L ? A . ristide de la , Zitterature . " His biography of Madame Mojon—an Italian lady , who held in Paris that semi-privatesemi-public position which French
, society alone bestows on a -woman—was printed only for private circulation . It may be considered as a cabinet picture of domestic
lifea record of the manners and ideas of the nineteenth century , in , the upper circles of Italy and France .
In introducing his subject , M . Souvestre observes , "We have not here to do with one of those personages whose passage leaves behind
a luminous track in history ; but private life has its own models . Besides the public Pantheons destined for national celebrities , which
of us has not his domestic Pantheon , wherein he delights to preserve the memory of heroes better known , though more humble , who are ,
as it were , the holy patrons of an obscure pilgrimage ? By the side of the great epic of humanity , each of us writes his Iliad in honor
of some unknown Achilles . In truth , the Achilles are less rare than we and there are in the worldthank Godmore lofty souls
than suppose hih renowns , . How much , is therehow , much devotionhow g much geniuswhich wants courage but a pedestal , to be perceived
, , hy the whole world . " It was to preserve the memory of such noble qualities that M .
Souvestre drew up a sketch of the life of his friend . Bianca Miiesi was born at Milan , on the 22 nd of May , 1790 .
Both her parents were of the historic family of the _Yiscontini ; they had five daughters , of whom Bianca was the youngest , and she was
sent , before she was six years old , to be educated at a convent in Florencein with an elder sisterwhose turbulent temper
so tormented , company the poor nuns , that they changed , her name Miiesi into Malesi—born for mischief . Little Bianca was extremely
pious , and all her early childhood was _passed in different convents . From the last of these , San Spirito , at Milan , she was transferred ,
with her sisters , to the charge of a certain Madame Gallicia , who kept a school for young ladies , and who perpetually talked of her
travels Here Bianca in Eng 7 s skill land , in and devising the great excuses peop to le avert she reprimands had known from there her .
companions gained for her the honorable sobriquet of the " Advocate ;" but she had no occasion to exercise her office in her own behalf , for
she anticipated orders , and exceeded prescribed tasks . Though the _yoimgest of the pupilsshe was always entrusted with the
superin-, tendence of the school in Madame ' s absence . In the spring of 1802 , our pupils were recalled to their father ' s
house . The Miiesi family adhered to the custom of their country
10 Bianca Milesi Mojost.
10 BIANCA MILESI _MOJOST .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/10/
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