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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.* 369
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The Princess Marie Of Orleans. A Statuet...
summoned by death , from works which cannot die , all honor also to friendly an that In such atelier royal an artists in famil atmosp the , y the palace who here Princess were of and intelli proud worked Marie gence to dail at win , and a y the very at aided her painter earl profession b y y age to the their establishe counsels of hearth sculp of d - .
ture . None of her works , , however , have been publicly exhibited , save the last and probablthe best—the " Joan of Arc . "
Marie A literary to present lady to , her a friend a y work of mine she had , once latel called y written on the on Eng Princess land ,
dress which , covered she had with just visited a loose . blouse She found and her her in fair her curls atelier protected , her elegant from
the dust of the stone work by a , simple linen cap , which enhanced rather than obscured her "beaut . She leffc her work at once to listen
to Mademoiselle Cand after a y few minutes remarked thoughtfully , "Do know there , is one thing I rudge the English . it is their
Sunday you , their day of rest . Business g suspended , the hum , of labor changed for that of praise , no theatres , none of those wild
amusements which may be a variety of work but can never afford repose , And the happy as the quiet young of princess a great spoke city sanctif the tears ying filled the one her day eyes , in those seven soft . "
with eyes which deliht so for readil she y had kindled in that with book enthusiasm which the , and Princess the lad Marie y listened had not yet read g , described , with eloquence the strange and soothing
effect of this , sabbath stillness upon her own mind . After some further conversation , Mademoiselle C . turned to the works before
gratified to her persevere , and began of at her in irited so to praise praise severe sketches , and the a stud contented industry sent y , but b the her which herself princess brothers led with one seemed , then in showing her in in situation Al no geria her way a . portfolio y
Those were the sp palmy days of that large family : alas , how soon were During they the to fade disorders ! of the revolution of 1840 , which banished of the
Louis Philippe and his family from France , the desk of one that read princesses . was Nothing affectionate was broken could , rational have open been , , and and more elegant the favorable letters , mig contained ht to be the found writers in there it were ; ex all
they pressed were in thus language driven equall into y exile simp , le long and ere charming the death 1 . But of long her dear ere
eldest brother , the Duke of Orleans , had irreparably shaken both the throne and the confidence of Louis Philippe , the most gifted of all
the gifted circle , the beautiful sculptor-princess , reposed in peace beneath Few and the uninteresting chapel of En . were the events of her life : her education ,
her execution of this beautiful statue , her marriage with the German weak conflagration prince and ill who of had her took to palace her fl to across a his week own the or land two stone , the subsequentl -paved birth court of y her , when to son find , she the a , y
refuge from the , flames , her return to France that she might recover
Biographical Notices.* 369
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES . * 369
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/9/
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