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XXXYIL—SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND LABORS OF MARIA BOCOI LA MOIJ5TETTE* BY THE AUTHOR OF " HISTOKICAiL PICTURES OF THE MIDDLE AGES IBT BLACK ATSTD -WHITE."
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"The seed Has The li risen ttle seed and...
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Xxxyil—Sketch Of The Life And Labors Of Maria Bocoi La Moij5tette* By The Author Of " Histokicail Pictures Of The Middle Ages Ibt Black Atstd -White."
_XXXYIL—SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND LABORS OF MARIA BOCOI LA _MOIJ 5 _TETTE * BY THE AUTHOR OF " _HISTOKICAiL PICTURES OF THE MIDDLE AGES _IBT BLACK _ATSTD -WHITE . "
"The Seed Has The Li Risen Ttle Seed And...
_"The seed The little seed they laught at in the dark ,
A Has Of thousand spanless risen and girth cleft * and that the rushes lays soil , on and to every the grown side a " bulk
arms sun . —Tennyson . At the extremity of Western Switzerlandbetween the pine-clad
, chain of the Jura mountains and Franche-Comte , in the modern Canton de Vaud , lies the long * woody valley of the Lac-de-Jouxso
, termed from the wildly romantic lake ( formed hy the golden-sanded Orbe ) wnieh bathes the feet of three populous communes or hamlets ,
le Lieu , l'Abbye , and le Chenit . The ground is naturally sterile and stonythe climate cold , and subject to all the vicissitudes of exposed
, Alpine districts ; but industry arid ingenuity have triumphed over the niggardliness of natureand few of the rural portions of
, Switzerland present a more smiling picture of comfort and independence , or views more redolent of sylvan beauty .
Far different was tke scene when the whole valley belonged to the rich abbeys of St . Claude and Lac-de-Joux , built on the opposite
shores of the " deep and dangerous lake , " whose teeming waters , alive with , the choicest fish , proved an apple of discordthrown from
, —the century ~ suejpessive . _Nothing abbots then of could each be rival more house barrelaror to - _^ _B _~ de _ ojh solate _^ r __^ jfor than --m these : any-a
villages . The peasantry , chiefly serfs , owing allegiance to either the one or the other of the two monasteries , little elevated in the scale
of humanity above savages , were obliged to cross the dreaded lake , at all seasons , in frail shallow boats to grind their corn at the
respective abbatial mills , and attend mass on Sundays , and on the numerous fete days of the Romish church , at the conventual chapels .
They were not permitted to take fish from the lake on any pretence whatever ; and , without the slightest mode of employment , save as
wood-cutters and charcoal burners , were steeped in poverty and ignorance . A change was effected by the Reformation , and the
consans * " Environ teainsi ce _ajyp terns elee -la , vivoit une _' elle femme etoit fille . nommee d _' un moine la _Moinette prpselyte ; elle nomine etoifc ,
, parce qu , l Jacques econs de Bocci lecture . a * * jeunes * - * Ce qui tte temoi femme _' se t mit prendre a donner gout dos
qques gens , gnereny . s La ' , rencon en plei troient n air , devan . Quel t une [ ues niaison -unsen , elle reconnoissance misoit des lecons lui aux enfan toien s t qui un y
_ai morceau itre endroit dejp , ain en , mire qui tenoit , de q meme lieu . " de — , p Jfistoire avement ; de apre la ' s Vallee quoi , , elle du appor allo Lac . i - t de dan - Joux s un
par J . Z > . Nicole , Page 384 . _,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/12/
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