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202 OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT ,
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Jws, ^?Re7 1 7#&, 1862. The Deel Great I...
requires to be greatly softened as much , outside as inside of our court-housesprisonsand penitentiaries ; and to preserve society
from the corruption , , of the social evil , it is also necessary to place women in an independent position . This is what M . Hugo wishes
to teach— " humanity . " But many complain that the existence of one , whose class societialthough society is being undermined by
it , should be so prominentl y gnores y , brought forward in the person of Fantine _. It would be almost superfluous to say that they are included among
those excellent persons who are in real life the first to discover and make known what so greatly scandalizes them when discovered hy
an authorand made known rather with the view of reforming public morals , than driving to utter ruin unfortunate individuals
who his opponents are as often accused to be of pitied exaggeration as to be blamed , in drawing . M . , Hugo as he is does also , the by
• wretchedness of the galley slave and the gradations of want—and through want and the pharisaical morality of some neighbors , the
degrees of crime through which Fantine passed , and which also caused the sufferings of Cosette . But any one who appeals to
the police registers must adopt an opposite opinion . Among the principal items of the crimes which they record are the suicides and
infanticides committed by outcast women , or women whose maternal instincts were overcome by the fear of being classed among the
reprob ance ates , which and too undergoing frequentl that is mistaken eternal and for social implacable justice social ; but
which venge makes hypocrites and hardened y culprits rather than sincere and humanized penitents .
labor A band succeeded of enlig in htened formin women a have society , after calling six years itself of " persevering Societe do g
Protection , JkfaterneZle . " An is attached to itwhich has for object to find loyment agency for all working women , of whatever
class they may be . emp A school is also in the course of being founded , called " Tine Ecole Professionelle" It will be exclusively fox *
girls , who will not be received in it before they have entered their twelfth year . They will receive a thorough French education , as
well as be instructed in a profession , trade , or art , according to their own desire and the desire of their j _> _areirfcs - Commercial
classes are also in the programme , and foreigners will be allowed to join them at a very moderate charge . This institution will in
many instances be so organized that many pupils can be received gratuitously . Mdlle . Vautier , the author of " Leonie ; " Mdlle .
Perdonnet , the daughter of M . Perdonnet , the great railway contractor , who founded here the Philotechnique Institution for workmen _;
Madame Emile Girardinand several other ladies of equal standingform the Committee , of Management ; Madame Le Monnier
is the , President . A meeting of the Society takes place each Saturday at her houseabout thirty generally attend . The
; President is an essentially womanly woman—which by no means
implies that she is not a very clear-headed one , and certainly implies
202 Our French Correspondent ,
202 OUR _FRENCH CORRESPONDENT ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/58/
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