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90 FELICIE BE FAUVEATJ.
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set at liberty and returned to her studio and to Paris . But very soon afterwardsthe appearance of the Duchesse de Berryin Vendee ,
, , set fire to all royalist imaginations , and gave hope to all royalist hearts . Madame de la Roche Jacquelein and Mademoiselle de
Fauveau leffc Paris , and again worked day and night for the good causeto "be again disappointedto failand to suffer .
I have , dwelt , on this episode , , apart as , it is in some respects from her artist career , to shew how strong were the convictions , cemented
as they were by personal affections , trials , and sacrifices , which had given their peculiar tone to her private , and its character to
her artistic life . "My opinions are dearer to me than my art , " Mademoiselle de Fauveau . She has proved this . She was
says one of the forlorn hope who stood up in the breach to save a falling dynastyand with its ruins were engulfed her own fortune ,
, her prospects , and such part of her success as depended on the public recognition and acceptance of her art in her own country .
On the failure of this second attempt of the Legitimists she was the persons exiled . She first took refuge in Switzerland ,
returne among d to Paris , in the very teeth of the authorities , broke up her studio and establishment there , and came to Florence , where , with
her brother and mother , she has resided ever since . Any one who knows anything of the material expense and
outlay necessary to carry on the art of sculpture , may imagine that the removal from a studio in which were accumulated sketches ,
models , marbles , most of which were not portable , and had to be destroyed , was almost ruin . The forced sale of furniture , the
transfer , at a heavy discount , of funds which had to be re-invested , were additional and heavy items in the total amount of loss .
What was most provoking was , that from the fragments which were thrown aside , fortunes were made . At the very time when the
little family were enduring bitter privation in Florence , a man realised an almost fabulous sum by selling walking sticks
manufactured from designs made by Mademoiselle de Fauveau in those happy Paris evenings to which I have before alluded .
There was also a great expense attendant on establishing a new studio in Florence , and many years labor has scarcely sufficed
to re-imburse the necessary outlay . Madame de Fauveau was the guardian angel of the family at this period , and thought no
sacrifice too great for the encouragement of her daughter ' s genius and the advancement of her views . Her own poetical and
imaginative mind roused , inspired , and fostered the ideas of her daughter , while her unflinching resignation and humble faith
soothed and solaced her heart . With unparalleled nobleness , in spite of their extreme poverty ,
the family refused to receive a farthing from the princes or the party they had so served . No fleck of the world ' s dust can be
thrown on that spotless fidelity . It was at this period , when each clay ' s labor scarcely sufficed to provide , for daily necessities , that ¦ \
90 Felicie Be Fauveatj.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 90, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/18/
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