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OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT. 271;
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Ladies, Paris, November 20, 1861.
Orleans bar , gave up tlie ghost before tlie case could be tried . The - - Paris bar , however , assembled to decide the course they would take
: should a case analogous come before it ; and after much discussion - ¦ was that the overruled law shoul in i d ts be decision entirel by modified Jules F avre _, t who ice by in t this he enli case hten said
ment of the present day , and y not by the cus prac toms of past centuries g , , alike repugnant to log ic ic and to common sense .
This mention of gentlemen learned in the law" suggests a subject upon which , the pens of the greatest writers and the pencils of Ary SchefFer and Baudry seemed to exhaust themselves .
without exhausting the interest that is confined to so simple but v . so terrible an actionthatalthough _accomplished seventy years
ago , it still calls up , a shudder , . A new light is thrown upon the conduct of the avocat whom Charlotte Corday appointed to
defend her on account of their ancient friendship , but who was . hitherto supposed to have deserted her when she was brought
before the revolutionary tribunal . To one who has seen Baudry ' s chef-d ' oeuvre exhibited last summer in the Palais de 1 'Industrie
it is particularly interesting ; and if tlie book entitled u \ Les Souvenirs du Comte JPontecoulant : Extraits de ses JPapiers et
_Correspon-. dance" has less local color than the painting from which last summer children turned sickening awayit has more historical truth .
Tlie terrible drama of Charlotte Corday , is contained in it from the time she struck Marat till her existence closed upon the scaffold .
Even more , it brings the reader back to the time when this fanatic of a feverish period was living as a child and pupil under
the care of the rdigeiises of the Abb aye aux Dames , at Caen , the Superior of which was the maternal aunt of a young ,
highly-- educated , and brilliant cavalry captain , named Count Douleet de Ponteeoulant , who came frequently to see his venerable relative , and
was not supposed to be indifferent to the charms of one of the cloistered pensionnaires . With the revolution came more serious
occupations , for the young nobleman having adopted revolutionary principleswas sent to the National Convention as the deputy for
Calvados , where Ms old " enamorato" was destined to find him . . However , it shouldnot be omittedthat she had meanwhile so
completely lost , sight of , him as to be , in total ignorance of his doings , .. and not even to know in what side of the assembly he took his
place , although he was a warm partisan of the Girondins , at that _jnoment equally with himself under the proscription ; but far fr 6 m
having any suspicion that such was the case , and judging from . hi « ancient ideas , she believed the ci-devant cavalry officer to be daily
seated on the benches of the Mountain , which was then of course ¦ . triump travelled hant to . Paris When for the the blood purpose y deed of was perpetrating done , which she Charlott was e broug Corday ht
before the Revolutionary Tribunal , and asked whom , she would choose . to be her defender ; she thought of her old admirer . " I must / ' wrote
. she to Barb arouse , " select a defender since it is the rule . I have taken
Our French Correspondent. 271;
OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT . 271 ;
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/55/
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