. The court of Empress Josephine : with anecdotes of the courts of Navarre and Malmaison. its due influence uponthose who live in hopes, as well as those who give wayto despondency. With us a sensation of joy was expe-rienced which partook as much of astonishment as ofenthusiasm. By degrees our first transports subsided,and made way for a no less pleasing though more calm homage of the respect I owed to him. Far greater talents andeloquence will, no doubt, be exerted in his praise; but it can never betold in language of more unaffected sincerity. The second wife ofM. de Saint-Just was Mdlle. T
. The court of Empress Josephine : with anecdotes of the courts of Navarre and Malmaison. its due influence uponthose who live in hopes, as well as those who give wayto despondency. With us a sensation of joy was expe-rienced which partook as much of astonishment as ofenthusiasm. By degrees our first transports subsided,and made way for a no less pleasing though more calm homage of the respect I owed to him. Far greater talents andeloquence will, no doubt, be exerted in his praise; but it can never betold in language of more unaffected sincerity. The second wife ofM. de Saint-Just was Mdlle. Tourette, the sister-in-law of the cele-brated Cherubini. This choice is equally creditable to the author ofit and to its object; for, with the exception of a fortune, was possessed of every qualification which can recommenda woman. The disinterestedness of her conduct at the death ofM. de Saint-Just rendered her still more worthy of being the partnerof a man who was always bent upon devising the means of pro-moting the happiness of his fellow-creatures. 4ffyUfU -f-tyi-y. AMILLE DESMOULJNS IN THE GARDENOF THE PALAIS ROYALEJULY 12, 1789 After the painting by Felix Barrias
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