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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 59
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French Women "Adele Of Letters ," &C . ....
young of livel man or , lingered tender controversy with delight over And these now seven strange thousand and pitiable pages
y . , contrast lete edition ! it would of Mademoiselle take years de , a Scudery lifetime ' s perhaps works , in to that collect city a where
comp as her few a fame byword sin reached s of with taste its a have posterity fulness condemned ; that saddest has irretrievabl of never all , her cared nam y one to e read has of remained the her , most and
a ingenious , delicate , and refined minds that ever were reflected in fiction . _# _&
_•& •« * * " The sorrows inseparable _from a long life beset Mademoiselle de
the Scudery inevitable 's old age penalt : she of survive reaching d almost ninety-four all her . But friends all , that and could paid _<
soften so prolonged an y existence was granted to her . To the last , she received distinctionshonorsand munificent proofs of the value
her set were a morning on brother one her of ; , person the and present substantial wlien and s from she , her was anonymous writings acknowled alone , . , pensions gments Even friends whilst her from often merit crowned she dropped was received heads in with of ;
• Christina of Sweden gave her a pension and her portrait ; Cardinal granted Mazarin left her her another an annuit , which y by his his successor Madame testament de confirmed ; Chancellor Maintenon ; and Boueherat , finall her y ,
Louis XIV . on the solicitation of , gave , in 1683 , a , pension of two thousand livres , which she enjoyed eig " hteen She had years long . been ailing when she took cold in the spring of which she
1701 . Severe injudicious religious austerities in _persisted usual with faintness , on _sj > the ite her morning . advanced She felt of th the years at second her , hel hour ped of the was June comp come , but laint , was and . soon She with rose seized great as
firmness said < II faut _mourtr . She asked for her crucifix , embraced itand , gazed at it longuniting herself to the sufferings
was and too the deaf , passion to heed of Christ or hear . Mm Her , confessor he put the was crucifix sent in for her , but hands she ,
as the most eloquent of all exhortations ; in that last hour . It was heavy , and one of the persons present attempted to take it it to from her
her bosom , but and her gentl dying y hands expired clasped , whilst it the firml priest y ; she was pressed in the act of
giving " There her is absolution something . in that calm , resigned , and religious death , and honorabl
read which spent . and crowns Mademoiselle have nobly deserved and de Scudery fitly their a 's life fate works , long but hav , pure e if long she , unfortunatel ceased to be y y ;
had hel conferred ped , not to pow may pervert incalculable er , genius the literary , benefit and ori s taste g on inality the of her moral enoug age , h tone , , to or reform rather of literature , it if , she she . and the
She 4 JPrecieuses put into ' had books introduced what Madame into society de — Rambouillet modesty , and "with .
Notices Of Books. 59
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 59
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/59/
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