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S68 MADAME -3>E IiAM&ETME.
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Announced It Is A Year The Ago Death Sin...
la ne me sera pas erilevee _; et _( _juand _j'amrai vecu pour elle _, elle me fermera les . "
Now began , for yeux the illustrious poet ; , the time of Ms greatest mental activity . He published much poetry ; including his
beautiful romance of Joeelyn ; and lie began preparations for the History of the Girondins . He likewise entered into political
life ; the electors of Bergues sent him to Parliament ; and his native town of Macon wished also that he should represent her
interests . While he was thus absolved in work of various kinds , his wife watched over him unceasingly . It was a
touchhusband ing sight with , that love of her and constan care ; she t solicitude was ever ; b she y his enveloped side , gather her
ing every look and every word . Devoted to his interests , she occupied herself in each household detail , and in her husband ' s
These correspondence pages she , and gathered in the one most by trifling one , cop pages ied from them his for pen the .
of printer the great , and poet has . thus This preserve idea of d Madam for posteri e de ty Lam , the artine manuscri ' s is both pts curious and touching ; future collectors of autographs will have
cause to be grateful to her . Tip to the present time , all the manuscrits of the author of The Girondins have _3 been
preserved . p We have told the story of the Meditations _JPodtiques ; all the
verses were copied for Madame de Lamartine , in the long aristocratic handwriting * of the poetand laced in the corbeille de
noces a precious compliment to , which p another still more precious was to be added . M . de Lamartine had just produced
JFocel yn which was composed day by day , on the mountain , in the valley , seated on a block of granite , or under the _shade
account of of a an _chesnuit account book tree . book On , and , the or had other rather been leaves of written a great were on album the the accounts _al , t servin ernate g of leaves as the an
wages owed to the numerous labourers in his vineyards of St . Point and Montceau . Each man was there noted down , his
without days of work heed , , his that domicile on the , opposite his age , pages the number , Jocelyn of breathed his cottage and ;
lived , and the parsonage of Valneige was -built up for all time . the The day grapes cam were e when gathered it was , and to be the sent poem to the was publisher completed . , The and
parcel was being made up when Madame de Lamartine stopped the proceeding . u How is this , " she cried , _" M . de Lamartine
is sending off the account book of the vineyards ? He has made reall a mistake y Jocel . " Then and turning she laug over hed a _whjfte page , she examining added , " the No album ! it is
yn _, ther where . poetry Then she , illustration hastened , to and her arithmetic stiicland , were industriousl mingled toge ied - y
Jocelyn which was sent to Paris after a few days' delay y . cop Her
S68 Madame -3>E Iiam&Etme.
S 68 MADAME -3 > E IiAM _& ETME .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 368, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/8/
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