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Article THE HISTORY OF MADAME AND MONSIEUR. C— ← Page 5 of 6 →
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The History Of Madame And Monsieur. C—
Madame C knew too well the character of the lady , who was { he companion of her husband ' s flight , to doubt of his infidelity . Madame de was a Parisian lady of hig h rank , who had been distinguished in the ancient regime for the brilliancy of her'coteries , 'and the number of her adorers . Exquisitely skilled in all those meretricious arts , which too often captivate the senses of the lords of creation , without leave of their reason , and even in opposition to all
their better feelings , Madame de had for many years enchained in quick succession more captives than she could count at her triump hal car ; had disturbed the peace of a great number of families ¦ , had -broken the heart of'many a tender female , from whom she had aiie--rated the affections of a beloved husband , by those seductions winch [ spread an alluring drapery over the form of vice , and render the simle charms of virtuous love insi id to the vitiated fancy . Madame
p p ; de was publicly known to be a woman of gallantry ; _ but this byno means prevented her being perfectly Well received in the first circles of fashion , where she was certain to find many who ; rivalled 'her in licentious dispositions , but none who eclipsed her in Circean
- graces . \ -. Though her youth was now past , her person was still attractive , land her gaiety and wit were inexhaustible . The revolution dissolved JMadame de - ' s coteries , dispersed her adorers , transformed Paris [ into a new region , where the altars of p leasure were overthrown , iwhere incense was offered at the shrine of a new goddess , and where ; . Madame de was stunned from morning till night with the
enthusiastic acclamations of the vulgar , whom she had been accustomed to consider as only born for slavery and silence ; and who now , lifting ; , up their hoarse voices , for ever thundered in her ear , from every i quarter , the sounds of liberty and the rights of'man . | - The morning after the fifsi ' fcederation , disgusted with that spec-I ' tacle of happinessand sickening at the recollection of those shouts of
, [ 'exultation , which arose in unison from half a million of'assembled , people , Madame de—— ordered post-horses , and set out for Loh-: don . Her chief solace in that capital consisted in amusing her former English acquaintances at Paris , by whom she was well received , with | spiteful p leasantries upon the new order of things , fanciful definitions ! of liberty , and ludicrous sketches ofthe raw party-coloured
volunteers , who , since Madame de drew their pictures , have scaled . the Alps , and changed the face of Europe . i- While that lady was enlivening the various tea-tables where she I visited with well-turned epigrams on democracy , she was summoned | . by her friends to hasten'instantly" tp France , in order to save her [ property from confiscation , and herself from being comprized in the 'Jawwhich laced those persons on the fatal list of emigrantswho
, p , did not return within a stated time . Madame de , however , with full confidence in her own powers of extricating herself from all scrapes , and overcoming all obstacles , loitered in London till the day I -of grace , was past . She at length came to Paris , . and opened herca-¦ reerin that city , by p layfully jesting in society , even with persons in i -
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The History Of Madame And Monsieur. C—
Madame C knew too well the character of the lady , who was { he companion of her husband ' s flight , to doubt of his infidelity . Madame de was a Parisian lady of hig h rank , who had been distinguished in the ancient regime for the brilliancy of her'coteries , 'and the number of her adorers . Exquisitely skilled in all those meretricious arts , which too often captivate the senses of the lords of creation , without leave of their reason , and even in opposition to all
their better feelings , Madame de had for many years enchained in quick succession more captives than she could count at her triump hal car ; had disturbed the peace of a great number of families ¦ , had -broken the heart of'many a tender female , from whom she had aiie--rated the affections of a beloved husband , by those seductions winch [ spread an alluring drapery over the form of vice , and render the simle charms of virtuous love insi id to the vitiated fancy . Madame
p p ; de was publicly known to be a woman of gallantry ; _ but this byno means prevented her being perfectly Well received in the first circles of fashion , where she was certain to find many who ; rivalled 'her in licentious dispositions , but none who eclipsed her in Circean
- graces . \ -. Though her youth was now past , her person was still attractive , land her gaiety and wit were inexhaustible . The revolution dissolved JMadame de - ' s coteries , dispersed her adorers , transformed Paris [ into a new region , where the altars of p leasure were overthrown , iwhere incense was offered at the shrine of a new goddess , and where ; . Madame de was stunned from morning till night with the
enthusiastic acclamations of the vulgar , whom she had been accustomed to consider as only born for slavery and silence ; and who now , lifting ; , up their hoarse voices , for ever thundered in her ear , from every i quarter , the sounds of liberty and the rights of'man . | - The morning after the fifsi ' fcederation , disgusted with that spec-I ' tacle of happinessand sickening at the recollection of those shouts of
, [ 'exultation , which arose in unison from half a million of'assembled , people , Madame de—— ordered post-horses , and set out for Loh-: don . Her chief solace in that capital consisted in amusing her former English acquaintances at Paris , by whom she was well received , with | spiteful p leasantries upon the new order of things , fanciful definitions ! of liberty , and ludicrous sketches ofthe raw party-coloured
volunteers , who , since Madame de drew their pictures , have scaled . the Alps , and changed the face of Europe . i- While that lady was enlivening the various tea-tables where she I visited with well-turned epigrams on democracy , she was summoned | . by her friends to hasten'instantly" tp France , in order to save her [ property from confiscation , and herself from being comprized in the 'Jawwhich laced those persons on the fatal list of emigrantswho
, p , did not return within a stated time . Madame de , however , with full confidence in her own powers of extricating herself from all scrapes , and overcoming all obstacles , loitered in London till the day I -of grace , was past . She at length came to Paris , . and opened herca-¦ reerin that city , by p layfully jesting in society , even with persons in i -