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MADAME DE STAEL. 371
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r € t to give a head to tlie decapitated power of the multitude , when
Its proper head is separated froin the body , and the country Is and Impotent so did for the good demoniacs ? " Buonaparte who preceded afterwards him reasoned whose hearts like were this ,
goaded to fury "b y the sufferings of their peop , le ; and who , disbelieving in a reliion which had been accidently associated with
vicein a wild and g frenzied indignation broke down all barriers between , riht and wrongand rushed to the most horrible extremes .
In such g an hour of agony , , which could only be portrayed by Paris the gloomy were smeared Imagination with of blood a Dante and , the ( when houses the of gay feasting streets re of
echoed -with cries of death , ) the , daughter of Necker ( who had to been make vainl good y endeavoring his fliht ) was to aid arrai the gned infirni before Abbe the de awful Montesq tribun _\ iieu al
of Robespierre , and g accused of plotting in favor of the prescribed aristocrats . Imagine a delicate woman of six and twenty , alone
In Paris with her little child , having to pass through the crowds of ¦ were ferocious pointed women at herself , and . beneath " Had an I fallen arch , of _" says pikes Madam , many e of de which Stael ,
£ C my life would have been over ; but it is in the nature of the in peop her le to nervous respect organization whoever stands was erect very . " distinct Such a from degree that of courage strong
result animal of bravery reason which and makes self- it natural ent . to In face this danger terrible : it situation was the governm
distribution _TsTecker ' s daug of hter grain was iven rescued by her by father men who to the had peop witnessed le during the the
famine . One of these g men was Santerre the brewer , the executioner of Louis XVI . ; yet , fallen as this creature was to the lowest
degradation of which humanity is capable , with his baser passions had excited yet by treasured scenes which with were gratitude passing the around recollection him , of his a memory deed of
kindness . After this , narrow escape Madame de Stael sought a refuge in
Eng at MickLeham land , and established Surrey . The herself garden in a of house this house called — Juni the cedars per Hall of ,
which are said , to _Tbe some of the finest in England—still attracts the admiration of the passing visitor . Here TalleyrandeDe
, _INarbonne ( whose life her generous exertions had saved , ) D'Arblay , and others , were the guests of Madame de Stael . This melancholy
little colony , was reinforced from time to time by some fresh reof sea fugees her ; and : father now now the ' s Montmoriu scaffold Duchess . _' s de The daug Brog celebrated hter lie , , weep escaped ing visitors from at the attracted the recollection perils the of
attention of the kindly Fanny Burney , who , wearied with the restraints of Court life , was visiting for a time at the adjoining
_Norbury alarmed at Park the . masculine The amiable depth little of creature intellect was disp amazed layed by and Madame rather
de Staelwhom she likens to a superior Mrs . Thrale . Perhaps she ,
Madame De Stael. 371
MADAME DE STAEL . 371
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/11/
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