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    232 ROSA BONIIEUR.

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    -Afta— At The Southern End Of The Rue D'...

    superior His thoug powers hts turned , and long desirous ingly . towards of a wider Paris field , the focus for tlieir of Art exercise and l of .

    i Renown 1829 , the he cynosure quitted Bordeaux of all ambitious and established aspirings , himself and _ . accordin with g his y ,

    n , , , wife able t and family , t in and the warml metropolis interested . Of an in ardent the ideas and than impression ferment- - y

    ing- in emperamen the public , mind , he entered fervently into the political excitement that preceded the revolution of Jul ? endeavoring

    meanwhile to create for himself a position as an artist y . But periods of national effervescence are not favorable to art , and the painter ' s resultHis

    efforts to win the notice of the public were without . pictures to remained iving drawing unsold 1 lessons , and he and was ainting fain to an betake occasional himself portrait once .

    But more even g this resource failed him , , and p he found it utterly impossible to meet the wants of his family . His wife , an excellent musician , and of heart

    and one of those rare natures whose energies of head seem to lessons grow on with the the difficulties ianoand that succeeded call them for a into time exercise in winning , now

    bread gave for her household p ; but , the growing agitation of the social out and this political trying world period at , leng Madame th put Bonheur a * stop to sustained her teaching her . husband Through 's

    finished courage with the household her own ; and labors this and admirable expedients woman of the , when day , she used had to

    sit up half the night to earn , with her needle , the precarious _supmond port of Bonheur the morrow was enabled . "With to the resume return his of public labors tranquillity as a teacher , , Ray and - to the Paris Exhibi

    to _procure the admission of some of his works - tion heur , , where adored they by her obtained husband favorable and children notice , . died But in him Madame 1833 to , and restrict Bon the

    himself pressure m of ainl domestic to the responsibilities humblerbut more compelled immediatellucrative branches of his y professionHe , continued to produce y at various

    . , timesworks which showed that , in his dreams of fame , he had not over-rated , his powers ; but circumstances were against him , and his

    asx _^ irations , constantly thwarted by pecuniary necessities , were never full After y realized the . death of Madame Bonheurthe three elder children

    were in the placed Champs with Elysees an honest ; Julietta she woman remained , the , La younge until Mere , st she , Catherine being reached sent , her who to friends lived

    her in teenth B little ordeaux year charges . , with La Mere b whom sending Catherine them did to the her Mutual best for School the educ of Chaillot ati seven on of - .

    , y But Rosanow in her eleventh year , and detesting books and confinement as , heartilas evergenerally contrived to avoid the

    schoolroom , and spent most y of her , time in seeking out all the grassy spots and tracts of woodland afforded by the Bois de Boulogne , and the

    other environs of Paris . Two years passed thus , the children being with

    humbly clad , and living on the plainest fare ; but to Rosa ,

    232 Rosa Boniieur.

    232 ROSA _BONIIEUR .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/16/