The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-24
THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH-PHILA

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its full perfection in the celebrated Institute, the
most successful conservatory Of language ever
known.
Few know thatth French Academy was orig.
naly due 70 the refinement and graceful taste Of
woman. In time the pur Of the Hole Ram
boullet getting its eXaggerauye imitators, de
generated into prudery and atfecatOu, aud Lies
PreciCusCsh , idicults" Of Moere were no bad pho
togmphs Of what btauty had become when
travCsuCd by tly. To Bichceu, the Jealous,
anxious arbitrary minister, those pleasant meet
tngs az the Hotel were especially distasletul. He
wanted TO know all th was said and done there,
and could not bel eve that so many persons could
be gathered without plotting and evil speaking.
So one u1F he sent his secretary and spy, BuisrU-
bert, 10 thc marqui,c, asking her favor TO tell
him what her people snt of him there.
"Sir, said the mUrquisc grandly, my friends
know my attachment to hi, gmiUcuCe, and woIli
not therefore, be su impDiitc as TO spcth ill Of
him In my presence
His CWiuCuCc never asked again. and the meet
irgs went on as hrlshly rs before.
Nor card, ~ music were called I'm TO help the
lcadeu.tuutgd hours az the Hotel RtmhluiIlut,
but all the guests talked; they cultivated the
qulChucss OF rep rice, the ter.cu. ss of CpIgrum.
the bri'liaucy OF fancy, the swift bright play OF
thought, which gives spirit TO conversation. They
did not each make up his thought into q pellet
which ne launched at tue head ui bis nearest
ne'Phbor, then withdrew nrryously from the fray,
MS Is too often the only ta King 20 he "a LurE:
but they toycd, aud spOrtcd, and played, and
fenced Ike Arab warrior, in the i,ared game.
est rchrers OF manners and helps TO pleasant
living known TO modern society. In those days,
too, the world recognized the possibility Ct
attachment, which should include an the ten
derrCss, and exclude all the passion Of lose.
Julie d'Angcuncs, the eldest daughter of themar-
Quse, was o striking eNCmpliCation Of this, as
also of q greater freedom allowed thCu than now
10 unmarried women. She was her mothers ru-
Tenant In that graceful army of wit and beauty,
and bad as many lovers rs there were days IN the
| year; but she WUuld listen o. mono Of them, aud
| always said that she would never marry any one
/ lower than GuStayUs AdOlphus, the creates hero
Of his age NJ dc Monnuser, hoWcver--a hero
in his way, il not quite equal to the ideal the fair
! Julie had made Tor hcrsclt-aitcr nine years of
/ patient and loyal serving, succeeded in COuyiuC-
| ing her that husband may sometimes remain
/ lover. Ii was NJ. dc Montausicr who caused
| Guulande de Julie to he made--a highly charac-
terlstC manner OF wooing, with still dash of the
| old ChhariC sentiment Clinging 10 IL. This
"Garland" was a folio volume of twCnty-uinC
| pages. On each page was leaf or flower painted
| in miniature by the best artists of the day, and
underneath each painting was an ode or madri-
gal, written by the best poets; the whole executed
| by Jarry, the noted CaligraphCr.
Immediately after the Hotel Rambouillct, with
| its graceful dignifed and refined mistress, came
| the salon of MademOiSClle de Scudery, where the
two friends, COnrart, the Jealous secretary OF the
Academic, and PciissOn, the Secretary and de-
| fender OF FUuquet, met TO dispute possession of
| her heart. PclssOn, sixteen years her junior,
| and painfully disGgured by smallpox, was the
| nuully favored, anu COnrhft llAi 10 digest MS
| disappointment as he best might. The hientShip
| between Mademosele Scudery and Pelisson
| stands almost unriYaled in the annals of PA
! tOniSm
1t lasted through the five years Of solitary con-
/ fnemCnt in the Bastile, where he was imprisoned
for the defense of FOuquet, and where he formed
that celebrated friendship with the spider which
has made his name more famous perhaps, than
his friendship with La Scudery and il lasted up
to the day OF his death, when he was seventy and
she eighty-siX, AID the grave parted them but for
a briet day. No one ever dared 10 slander this
noble affection. The bitterest satirists left il
aone the most cynical dsbelievers in human
| purity were forced TO respect its innocence. Ii
| was a ine-hearted wOmans verdict in favor of
intelligence against station and of the superior
charms of mind against the mere outside graces
| OF form.
Madame de Sable next carried on this grand
| war of wOmanhood against the degrading in
| fluences of class and caste and in her salon,
ms in those of her predecessors, the literary mau
! and the refined man were always welcome
more welcome than the titled or the wealthy, if
! brainless or coarse. She, too maintained her
| place as lawgiver and superior, and recognized
no holiness in the Griselda type of woman.
| Our next queen OF society was not so true to
! her class. The Duchess de LOngucyille forsook
her pride for lower, If n more natural love, and
| her biography shows us the rare phenomenon of
| a lady who humbled herself TO her lover, and
accepted laws Instead of framing them. La
| Observation-Disclosures wise and foolish, true and
false maXims were, like the nobler thoughts Of
! Pascal, mainly elaborated from the conversations
held at Madame de SablCS-fOund means To bend
| the duchess TO his selfish will and to break the
| sceptTe OF dethTOned queen. La LOngueville Is
| the first woman of SGtOH uotOricty who bowed
herself mt the foot of mani and in her humilia-
! ton may be traced the beginning of that COM
paratiye decline Of female influence which has
been of such evil consequence 70 France.
/ say comparative for there are many years of
salon supremacy to Come-years when Madame
de Maintenon and Madame de Seyigne, Madame
II AT..Aa 10 Afonl D. lataa autA AIasN
anne Recamier gave laws to their various worlds
years when woman's grace and purity, and fine
moral perceptions and spiritual insight, helped
men through many miry way OF conscientious
difficulty, made many doubtful matter clear
and bright made politics, religion, and friend
ship an article of faith, and preserved still %
modern manners something of the fragrant deli
cacy of the old chiyalrie times.
But the greatest result which this recognized
influence of women has worked in France-iaI
greater even now in its decay, than what has evei
been allowed with us-is the higher position i
has accorded the literary men. When our best
| poets and authors were standing, shabby auC
mean, hat in hand, humbly waiting on some ricl
mans leuee, or wallowing in every species of low
viCe-when they were hiding in the contemptuou'
poverty OF Grub street, unable 20 lace dun, ol
pay milkwOman's paltry scOre-when they tool
their victuals behind SCREEN and submitted Il
the insolence of footmen for the sake of the patry
pound which was the price of fulsOme dedication
in France they were courted, teted, caressed
salons which sifted out all that was best anC
brightest for their special keeping the only king
holding joint rule with those beloved queens
"Where, except in France, do we find il a genera
rule and custom for women of all ranks 10 maxi
common cause with the whole talent and genius
of the country :" asks Madame NJ. Assuredly
not here in England, nor yet In Germany. Herr
a woman waits for mans fame before she el
tends her hand to him; in France she makes he
fame by her friendship; here he mus
add to his reputation some aroma o.
birth or wealth before becoming thoroughly
adopted in our drawingrooms Temporary
: patronizing Is not adoption; there he need
only to be witty and well-br TO have the entire
to the best salons in Paris. Therefore, in France
litN alIe is the highest profession a man car
follow, higher even than art; here 1t Is no pass
port of itself, but only the OCCASION the accident
Women who love art and literature, and all th
finer phases Of mind, have so little social intlu
ence here that they do not rule and refine. l
they did, we should mover have heard u word 0
the penny-a-liner or the old degrading Grub
street taunt-such histories as Chatterton ant
Otway in the past The chiyalry which eXaltc
women would react upon men, and the homag
paid 20 beauty would be rewarded by the purld
cation and refinement of force.
M Emile Cbere the inventor and prOpa cato