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52 OUB FRENCH CORRESPONDENT.
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For Le Some Of The Days Ital Past . The ...
political pupils of allusion the Lycee and Louis was the _le Grand antipodes . It of did the not ultramontane contain any
speeches which some , of his brethren have made this year on similar occasions . M . Darboy was satisfied with advising- the
young people whom he addressed to prepare themselves for the battle of life by steady application and the strict performance
of duty ; to count on no aid but that which comes from within themselves ; to rely upon their moral and intellectual power ,
fortunes which will whicli follow their them parents wherever can amass they to may -day go , and , and of not which on the the mutability of human affairs may deprive them on the morrow .
He also pointed out to them that no amount of study can _bring them any real advantage if self-aggrandisement be its sole end .
_" Study , " said M . Darboy , " also for the service and honour of your country , but most of all for humanity . Nobody belongs
exclusively to himself . We are all solidaires so long as one more human or being less effected is suffering by " it or . is It sunk is equall in degradation impossible , we for must us not be
to share in the prosperity of others . y The prosperity of a people consists in its industrial capacity and in the moral
elevation of its members . The work of general progress isconstitutes accomplished the by lendour individual of all effort . " , and the merit of each ,
After drawing sp a picture of those who vegetate in idleness perhaps and dissi unmerited pation , the circumstances Archbishop of and Paris the added inequality , "If hard of intel and
lectual resources , prevent any of you , from attaining as great a practice degree of of prosperi virtue ty to as your attain fellows fa hi , her it is elevation in your power than , by either the
talent or success can , give you ; for g it is the privilege of the man of noble heart and his glory before God and his
fellowmen ties of , to fortune find in and his moral throug worth h it to a establish compensation an heroic for the superiority
severiwhich commands , the esteem and admiration of all . " The Empress this year again presided at the distribution of
prizes awarded to the pupils of the Maison _Impei'iale de St . . Denis . Her Imperial Majesty was accompanied by the Duchess
de Montebello and several other ladies and gentlemen of high ran defender k , and of was Vincennes received in by 1814 the widow the lad of General superintendent Dumesnil of , the the
, y establishment One of the , and ils all then the mistresses advanced , in and grand in the costume name of . " her
schoolfellows repeated pup a very graceful , address , welcoming their she imperial had visitor no soon . er The finished child's than voice the faltered Empress as she lifted did her so , and and
embraced her tenderly . The little girl thus honoured is not
more than sevei _* years old . Finding herself so kindly treated
52 Oub French Correspondent.
52 OUB FRENCH CORRESPONDENT .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 52, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/52/
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