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82 MADAME DE GIBAHDIN.
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The sympathies of Madame de Girardin , but slightly enlisted on favorable behalf of to the the Constitutional Republic which Government succeeded its of Jul overthrow y , were . still During less
wrote the political much and disturb angril ances on that the followed conflicting the interests revolution and of op 1848 inions , she of
the time ; to the great y disappointment of her friends , who regretted the employment of so charming and brilliant a talent in the barren
field of party strife . But the course of events , subsequent to 1852 , having been unfavorable to the line of political action advocated
hy her husband , Madame de Girardin gradually relinquished the share she had previously taken in the editorship of the Presseand
, returned to the more congenial sphere of purely literary creation . Unfortunate as had been her first attempts at dramatic writing ,
Madame de Girardin was unable to renounce the hope of achieving in ultimate 1851 a success one-act in comed this species in verse of called composition " ¦ 7 Tis the . She Husb had and produced ' s Fault / , '
which had met with a far y , better recep , tion on the part of the public than 1853 the a second more comed ambitious calle attempts d il Lad "which TartufFe , had " preceded obtained it a ; decided and in y
appearance success , . " Lad of two y Tartuffe novels y , " , was _" Marguerite followed 7 , , in or the the , same Two Love year the s , , best b " y and the of
" We must not trifle with Sorrow ;' which rank among her productions . In 1854 , Madame de Girardin brought took out her the
well-known prose comedy , " Joy has its Dangers / which brilliant sympathie of s her of Paris by storm and also , and The won Clockmaker for its author 7 Hat the 77 most
act farce , as humorous successes as ; original , and " which keeps the s audience , a one in a -
roar of laughter from the first scene to the last : a double triumph , which amply compensated for the disappointments that had followed
her first attempts at dramatic writing , and raised her to the highest rank the laywrihts of the day .
among pg The talent of Madame de Girardin was now in its plenitude . Her later works had so utterly eclipsed in solid and enduring merit the
hi admirers ghly-vaunted felt full but y justified far inferior in antici productions pating a of long her line youth of , that brilliant her
successes from her maturer powers . But a fatal malady , cancer of the stomachwas already undermining her existence . The resources
of medical science , and the affectionate devotion of her friends were alike powerless to arrest the progress of the disease ; and she died
on the 29 th of June , 1855 , within a year after the achievement of her most brilliant literary triumph .
. The early death of Madame de Girardin has left a void in Parisian society that will not easily be . filled . Her graceeleganceand ready
, , wit , her large and generous intelligence , her unwavering attachment to old friends , and her liberal welcome to new ones , with her
remarkable social aptitudes , and the rare tact with which she did the honors of her drawing-room , all conspired to render her house the most
popular rendezvous of the capital . It may indeed be said that her
82 Madame De Gibahdin.
82 MADAME DE GIBAHDIN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/10/
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