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I*A SCEITR ROSALIE. 153
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The Archbishop of Paris sent his Vicar-General to assist in the ceremand a band of soldiers surrounded the bier , and rendered
military ony honors ; to the one who lay upon it , for she had been decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor . Finally , amidst
tears and prayers and the lamentations of a great multitude , they buried her ; and one who goes to the Cimetiere du Mont Parnasse
will see , placed where it may most conveniently be visited by those who come to pay a tribute of respect to one they loved , a tomb ,
bearing this inscription : — A Soeur Rosalie ,
SJES AMIS _EECONNAISSANTS , I _. ES RICHES ET I . ES PAUYEES . Jeanne Marie Renduafterwards known as Sister Rosalie , was
, "born on the 8 th September , 1787 , just before the terrible years of the French revolution . It was a tranquil , though a sorely
discontented France upon which her infant eyes opened , but she was destined to see that mediaeval framework of society shivered to
atoms , and to know intimately many of the successive actors on the political stage .
Her family belonged to the class of respectable burghers , and she was brought up by her widowed mother . Among the deep
valleys of the Jura , and surrounded by the simple and pious people who knew nothing as yet of the flood of new ideas which were
destined to arouse , and for a time to desolate , France , little Jeanne grew up to the age of five years , a pretty , clever , and very
mischievous child , endeavoring , according to her own whimsical assertion , to commit as many naughtinesses as possible , in order to
exhaust the list of faults and be quite good when she grew up . Then came the Reign of Terror , and even the Pays de Gex could
not escape from the effects of those dread decrees of the Convention of 1793 which proscribed the priests and denounced the
aristocratsand , forbade man or woman to succour the outlaws under pain of , death . Atheism ruled in the capital , and to perform Divine
service in the manner appointed by the church was a capital offence , both for priest and congregation . Madame Rendu , her family , her
servants , and her neighbours , undaunted by these threats , continued to receive th ! e " proscribed ministers of religion , and to afford them
facilities for celebrating Divine worship ; and little Jeanne , who had been trained by her mother in habits of the strictest truth , was
exceedingly discomposed by the amount of necessary concealment . The arrival of a new man-servant , whom everybody appeared to
treat with unaccountable respect , gave the honest child a sense of some doubtful mystery ; and in " une petite discussion" with Madame
Rendu , she exclaimed , " Take care , I will tell that Peter isn't Peter . " It was the Bishop of Annecy ! Such a revelation from
the innocent lips of this enfant terrible would have cost the lives of
the bishop and of his protectors , and they were obliged to tell her
I*A Sceitr Rosalie. 153
I * A SCEITR ROSALIE . 153
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/9/
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