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OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT. 275
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Ladies, Paris, November 20, 1861.
heaved a deep sigh at the supposed desertion— -the only time she showed her strange unflinching firmness of demeanor to Ibe shaken .
But although she carried the conviction to the scaffold of what seemed to her a piece of cowardice on the part of an old friend , and
history has hitherto endorsed it , the hook in question completely rescues M . Pontecoulant ' s memory from any blame upon that
score-Amongst the new publications are many that betoken an increasing taste for the marvellous or for the supernaturaland
Both are attacked and defended with a vivacity entertainin , g to those who seek their chief pastime in light literature , since even _tlxe
corrupting French novel is beginning to pall on the mental palate of the sensation-loving Parisians . In Didier _' s library are now to be
found the believers in table-turning . " The Book of Spirits and of Mediums , " by Allan Kardec , and " Spiritualism / ' by Clemence
H ; u Hypnotic Mesmerism , " by Louis Figuer , for rationalists ; as well as Magic and Astrology" and _" Dreams and Sleep" "by
, , M _d'Hericourt . Maury , of ' s the Institute t -work . is At Denter Les Idees ' s , side anti b - y Pr side ucUwniennes with Madame " "b g
Madame _Jkilette Lambert , , in all the pungency of a well-corrected , and y sharpened second editionThe first edition of this workin which _tlie
authoress refuted , " avec . tant d y esprit et de talent" th , e reveries of Prudhon on woman and on marriagebeing very quicklexhausted
she was by the increasing demand , of the public call ed upon to , prepare anotherto which is appended a critical examination of
, cc Peace and War , " that will certainly put Prudhon upon his mettle if he attempts to answer Madame Lambert as he did
Madame d'Hericourt , who utterly routed him . This modern philosopherregardless of the mottoplace aux dameswent to take
the precedence , of them , and has deservedl , y got well , punished for it by these ladies . Such is the vanity of the philosopherthat
whenever Madame _d'Herieourt ' s name is mentioned in his presence , , the blood rushes to his face , and one day on reading the remarks of
the Paris press on the subject , which clapped on his adversary , he exclaimed" If I and defeatedI am defeated by a woman who has
the strongest , head in Europe , , and who is not only a French woman , but , like myself , from Franehe Comte . " This gentleman is said to
have quarrelled with the Old Testament because the book of Genesis describes man as having " been created male and female "
and the latter as being the last called into life on an ascending scale , of created beingsinstead of Adamwhom Prudhon ' s followers contend
should have been , the finishing , stroke of the creation , and the top stone of its pyramid . M . Louis Jourdan , whose doctrines are
directly opposite , has also published a work of much biographical interestentitled Les Femmes devant _VEchafaudP
But last , , though certainly not least in interest to all practical English ¦ women ( such as Miss Emily Faithfullwhose work in
London has evokecT a warm eulogium from the Si _& , cle _, and has given
rise in France to a movement warmly advocated by M . Texier , who
Our French Correspondent. 275
OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT . 275
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/57/
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