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A dirty fellow , with a good voice , and a fiddle with three strings , alternately chanting and preaching to the crowd in one of the market places at Rouen , attracted my attention . The morale was the collection of three sous each from his hearers , for a sacred charm : being much amused and
somewhat edified , I purchased a packet . It contained two papers of prayers and saintly histories ; a small crucifix , and a very small bit of the real cross . When I displayed my treasure at the hotel , our landlady ' s son , a boy of about thirteen , who spoke a little broken English , cries out , on seeing
the crucifix , " Dat is God , "— " Dat is God . "
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Sunday is but slightly observed in this part of France , ( fifty miles south of Paris , ) at any season ; very slightly indeed in harvest . Some go to church for about an hour ; but , before and after , no great marks of Sabbath are perceptible . This is to
be regretted : a day of rest is at least an excellent political regulation : good for man and beast . It is , however , pleasant to perceive how little hold the church has upon the minds of the people . Surely it can never recover its influence * The churches here are
modest structures ; not so imposing as those of Normandy ; and 1 fancy they have less influence on the imagination of the inhabitants .
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whole detail of the business . Just so , near Rouen , the wife of the largest farmer in that quarter , conducted me to the barns and stables ; shewed me the various implements and explained their use : took me into the fields , and described the mode of husbandry , which she perfectly understood 5 expatiated on the excellence of their fallows ; pointed out the best sheep in the flock , and gave me a detail of their management in buying their wether lambs and fattening their wethers . This was on a farm of about
400 acres . In every shop and warehouse you see similar activity in the females . At the royal porcelain manufactory at Sevres , a woman was called to receive payment for the articles we purchased . In the Halle de Bled , at Paris , women , in their little
counting-houses , are performing the office of factors , in the sale of grain and flour . In every department they occupy an important station , from one extremity of the country to the other . In many cases , where women are employed in the more laborious
occupations , the real cause is directly opposite to the apparent . You see them in the south , threshing , with the men , under a burning sun ;—it is a family party threshing out the crop of their own freehold : a woman is holding plough ;—the plough , the horses , the land is her \ s ; or , ( as we
have it ) her husband ' s ; who is probably sowing the wheat which she is turning in . You are shocked on seeing a fine young woman loading a dung-cart;— -it belongs to her father , who is manuring his own field , for their common support . In these instances the toil of the woman denotes
-wealth rather than want ; though the latter is the motive to which a superficial observer would refer it . Who can estimate the importance , in a moral and political view , of this state of things ? Where the women
in the complete exercise of their mental and bodily faculties , are performing their full share of the duties of life . It is the natural , healthy condition of society . Its influence on the female character in France is a proof of it . There is that freedom of
action , and reliance on their own powers , in the French women , generally , which , occasionally , we observe with admiration in women of iuperior talents in lingland .
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State of France . 73
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Roanne . Sunday . Religion seems to be monopolized by the women , if we may judge by the attendance at church . Twenty women to one man is about the proportion . At the Petits Minims here , to-day , there might be 800 persons present to hear the ennon : 40 of them men !
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Aug . \\ . ( Sl Urban . ) In every part of France women employ themselves in offices which are deemed with us unsuitable to the sex . Here there is no sexual distinction of employment : the women undertake any task they arc able to perform , without much
notion of fitness or unfitness . This applies to all classes . The lady of one of the principal clothiers at Louviers , conducted us over the works ; gave us patterns of the best cloths ; ordered the machinery to be set in motion for our gratification , and was evidently in the habit Of attending to the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 73, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/9/
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