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OTJB FBENCH CORBESPONDENT. 59
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. » . Paris, August 18, 1862. Season Par...
Statethe Rector of the " Academie Franc , aise , " or of the Sorbonne , to the , Lyeees Charlemagne or the Louis other le Grand learned . bodies A full also muster make of
their the University authorities in all the , and and circumstance of official , robes ; and the appearance teachers of the different pomp classes don black or violet gowns ,
faced which with yellow the representative . A band is s stationed of the State on one are side enthroned of a p ; latform and a
on fanfare called out or some and continues lively tune till is he played returns as the to his name seat of , each after laureate receiving is
on each cheek , a kiss from the highest functionary present , as well as a laurel wreathand several handsomely bound books .
But the distribution , of prizes at the Maison Imperiale de St . Denis was this year invested with deeper interest than that which in
of general took the place , establishment that at ceremony any other at It St educational . was Denis after is performed establishment its foundation by the head hy France the -mistress . First In
divorce Napoleon and , performed the Restoration . hy the the , Empress Maison Imperiale Josephine , . institute After d her for
the education , of the daughters , of the Knights of the Legion of Honorwas not favored either hy the Empress Maria Louisa or
the Princesses , of the House of Bourbon . But the Empress , Eugenie signified , wishing her to intention revive the of presenting traditions of the the prizes First with Emp her ire , own this
hands year . This communication was made to the directress of the establishment on the sixth of this month , two days before the that
vacation commencedand created a degree of excitement may be easily imagined , , when less inflexible it is told than that that at the which Maison is enforced St . Denis in
should a the camp disci be p of line there soldi is ers not at . half It - was past appointed two o clock th in at her the afternoon Imperial Majesty of the
hope made 8 th . was But their painfull that appearance hour y deferred passed . For , , and and nearl a none great y three of number the the -quarters Imperial of the of expectant carriage an at hour last s
pup announced ils had . begun She was to look accompanied downcast , by when the Princess Empress of Essling was , the Pierre Countesses , her Lourm equerry el ; and and Renayval Baron , de her Varai ladies gne of , the honor prefect ; Baron of the de
palace With . her usual courtesythe Empress apologized for the lateness
of ministers her arrival at which , excusing she was herself , called on on the to preside ground , that did not a council terminate of
till half , an hour later than had been expected . Her Imperial Hamelin Majesty was the then Grand conducted Chancellor to the of the Salle Leg de ion Concours of Honor by ; Madame Admiral
and Mademoiselle , Hamelin ; General Mezi _& re , the chancellor ' s of chief the secretary Maison ; de and St . the Denis Baroness . On arriving Dauxnesnil there , , Superintendent all the ladies
connected with this Institution , as well as the pupils , gave way
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OTJB _FBENCH CORBESPONDENT _. 59
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/59/
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