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FELICIE DE FAUVEAU. 85
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trait serve of as B tlie occacio ideal of which the world I have famous seen in student an old . edition There of is also his works a por- ,
exist which two is very admirable like , Mademoiselle hona fide de likenesses Fauveau : . one Besides by Ary these Scheffer , there , in her
which he would never part with , and one own possession Iby Giraud How much . of the man there is in this woman" said her friend
purity hi the and g " hest Baroness water and degree are impulse de in just that Krafft , are elegant organisation , the who , characteristics and has sympathetic , written " and it a of is character . lier most She genius , true adds of . , , her for " Ma fire , in ardor dame , air the , ;
de Krafffc , dwells on the contrasts which her history presents , On and the which one , hand have the developed ladof her the mind Faubourg and determined St . Germain her , with character all the . y
habitsassociations and prejudices which belong to her order ; on the other , , the artist , earning her dail and y bread most , and obliged obli to gations face in their the
realit which single y all the woman sternest treading tread necessities who victoriousl seek to y achieve the imperative narrow independence and thorny by : their path
women must own exertions freel ; and out the of its genius path which all limitations to attain and breadth obstacles and . These vigor
contrasts y are sweep shewn in her person and manner . Her glance is usuallsoftbut I have seen it kindle and grow stern- Madame de
Krafffc y notices , with great acuteness and truth , that the movements white of her , soffc arms , and are fine somewhat , royal " abrupt as the hands and angular of _Ceesar , but " or her of hands Leonardo are
da Vinci ! Mademoiselle de Fauveau shares in the chivalrous and loyal senhest
timents of her mother . She has carried to its higdevelopment the monarchical and Roman Catholic idea , and this is perceptible in artist has been
more her conversation conscientious , in throug herself hout , and a life in her chequered works . by No many vicissitudes ,
but Fauveau ennobled was by born the in most Tuscany self- . sacrificing She was commenced loyalty taken . however there Mademoiselle . as Both an her in de - fant to Parisand her education was
mother and father , were persons of great intelligence and culture ; her Her mother daughter , especiall 's extraordinary y , had a great talents taste received for music their first and painting direction .
and Her encouragement parents , owing from to her some . pecuniary losses successivel , were obli to ged Limoux , while she still extremelto remove
Bayonne was of , the and partisans Besancon y in . young the While , war at which Bayonne was in then 1823 rag , y she ing met on with the ,
many frontiers whose piet of y Spain belonged , —men to , the whose old loyalty crusading amounted times to of fanaticism the cross , and and ination must have
fche sword—and from these her youthful imag , received Her st most udies powerful wereat this indelible time , as impressions they have always been , most ,
Felicie De Fauveau. 85
_FELICIE DE FAUVEAU . 85
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/13/
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