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BIANCA MILrEBl MOJON* 93
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About This Time Madame Mojon Lost Her Mo...
gave expression to tlieir political sympathies , and extending her hand to hini , and turning her eye to M . Coquerel _, her j ) astor , "Let
us p _^ ay for the Republic , " she said . mured Her with youngest her fainting son came 1 voice in . ; : she " Tell looked him towards —always him to , love and — mur his
duty . " Observing the distressed faces of her friends , she said , in her greatest _agony"Be calm ; I do not suffer so much as I seem
, to do . " To M . Coquerel she said , " I do not desire death- —I accept it ! " Simple and honest wordsexpressive of her value and
enjoy-, ment of the gifts of life , and of her submission to God ' s will . Dr . Mojon was constantly with her , exhausting the resources of
science . His firmness did not for an instant desert him . Struck with death himselfhe was silent until seven o ' clock . He then gave
his eldest son the , necessary orders , withdrew to his own bed , and died almost at the same moment with his wife , a victim to the
same scourge that ended her earthly existence , and cut short her beneficent career .
Madame Mojon ' s will , written on the sup _23 osition that her husband would survivegives to him the use of her whole property
till her sons shall be in , the full exercise of their j _> rofessions , so much she dreaded idleness for them . She secured a maintenance
to Mademoiselle de Rosselet , and left bequests to all her friends . The document concludes as follows : — " I desire to be interred
according to the Protestant rites , and without the least ponrp . If lace in the cemetery is markedI request that mention may be
made my p of my Protestant faith , which , I leave to my dear sons as their most precious inheritance . "
M . Souvestre concludes his memoir by a beautiful summing up of his friend ' s character—but the simple story of her life speaks for
itself . France has been illustrated by remarkable women in every department of life . Putting aside the beautiful intriguantes who
influenced in successive reigns the destinies of that great nation , we count up . how many famous and worthy names ! In Avar , we find
not only Jeanne d'Arc , but Madame de la Roche Jacquelin , the heroines of the Fronde , and the heroic " Madame" who even in the
last generation clung to the Bourbon standard in la Vendee . Longbefore English women had made their march in literature , we find
some of the letters and memoirs best illustrative of French history flowing from the pens of women j naywe find literary and learned
, aspirants satirised by Moliere as " les Precieuses Ridicules / " and Scotfc affirms Madame Roland to have possessed the best head
among the Girondins . Such characters belong to the public galler ries of a people . In Bianca Milesi Mojon , born- in Italy and
naturalized in France , the latter country acquired a remarkable example of the truth that the social and domestic sphere of woman
is also wide enough for the exercise of high talents and the richest endowments of the heart ; a field in which she may sow from
_yoiith to age and reap the fruits rejoicing . B . It . P .
Bianca Milrebl Mojon* 93
BIANCA _MILrEBl MOJON * 93
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 93, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/21/
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