The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1894-09-21
4nNoREn AZ A NATION.
Mime. BoEelot Receives the Ribbon Of the
Legion of Honor.

the ribbon Of the Legion Of Honor to
Mime. Bogelot, has turned brilliant
light ON personality whose career has
hitherto lain somewhat in the shade.
Leaving to others the care Of yin1ieat-
ing the feminine cause in public meet
ings and in the press, Mime. Bogelot
has devoted her life to the redemption
of female criminals Her name is inta-
mately connected with that highly phil
anthropic work, the ''Guvre de Liber-
ees de st. Lazare, - of which she is now |
directress, and it is mainly due to the |
fact that she personally represented the !
society at the woman congress at Chi |
cago that she owes this public recogni-
tion of her worth-an honor seldom |
youchsafed to women, however well |
merited To be thus singled out from |
among others of her sex must certainly |
be extremely gratifying, but it is pleas
ing to find that Mime. Bogelot takes her
honors very meelrly. The predominating
characteristics of the new cheValiere are
meekness and eheerfulness, combined
with excellent business capacities and a
boundless compassion for human errors
and misfortunes of every shape.
She is an admirable specimen of that
class of Frenehwomen about whom the
fashionable society of Payis knows lit
tie.
''The world aud are strangers.
never go ont never pay visits, . Nine.
Bogelot explained in recent interview.
ri rise early, the morning is spent ut
home debating letters to my private sec
retary. During the afternoon hours
am generally to be found at the offices
of the Guvre des Liberees do St. La
| zare. At 6o'clock / return to dine with
my husband and son, and am seldom
out of bed after 8. %
This is the simple epitome of Nine.
Bogelot's self sacrificing existence. In
her home surroundings there are abun-
dant evidences that the humanitarian
labors Of this excellent woman are not
allowed to interfere with the comfort OF
her husband. There is no disorder IN
her household. You feel that every
thing moves on oiled wheels A roomy
fat in q large house situated in a small
street turning out of the busy Rue de
Riyoli is her abode, solidly but simply
furnished, single, middle aged sery-
ant composing the entire staff, Ii IS
pleasant to note that between husband
and wife there Is complete harmony OF
ideas and interests, NJ Bogelot, who Is
q member Of the bar, 0ffording his wife
aid and advice on all legal matters CON
nected with her work.
Few women leading more or less Of
a public life manage to steer clear Of the
ouieksands Of seotarianisIn. That Mime,
Bogelot has been able to do so is due
uartly to q we'll balanced mind and
amiable temper, partly 70 the manifold
occupations OF her busy life She is ever
ready to give advice in respect to the
administration Of societies, matter IN
which she Is thoroughly oonYersant
but she wisely restricts her own labors
to the special lines she has taken up,
and which absorb all her time and ener-
eies. Politics never attracted her, nor
p has she ever taken an active part in the
yindication of woman rights Still she
is ever ready to lend q helping hand to
members of her own sex, TO fellow
workers as well as to the disinherlted
2 by fortune, But, although she personal
ly prefers to hold aloof from party stlite'
the woman's cause has undoubtedly hei
entire sympathy. Indeed It would have
been strange had it been otherwise,
owing to the great friendship that exist
ed between her and the late Maria De
raisInes. The connection between then
was almost that of 1nistress and pupil
There was d difference of some 10 year
in their ages, and Isabelle Bogelot
when a weakly child, was taken undei
Inc wing Of the elder woman and ~
sister, Nine. Fenisse, that she mlgn
have the benefit Of country AIR, ana re
ii mained an inmate Of their house untl
she married. This early training ha'
prohably q great effect on her spbse
Not being gifted with literary abili
tics as was the more brilliant Mari
Deraismes, she sought to render hersei
. nseful In other ways. II was not now
, ever. until after her marriage that sh
ioined the dsuvre des Ldberees de y
iazare. with which her name has sine
been SO inseparably connected I'm
was in 1873, and the society mad pse
founded three years previously by Mlls
Michel de Grandpre, the piece ot Ga
chaplain Of So Lazare, who had bee
struck during her intercourse wleh =
;pmatas of this house Of detention ,
Inc anxiety eyineed by SO many OF IL
prisoners az their terms Of lmplasol
ment came to q Close and they khe'
they would be once more thrown 9
their own resources and have to do hett
> tle with the difficulties Of life, heayil
handicapped by the ignominy q COZ
viotion. Initiated into the WORKINGS
tbe society by Nine Emile dc ma
e Ser It's vice president Mime. Bogei'
e threw herself into the work heart a.
soul and was very soon elected : ilaen
y ber II tie committee, to become
y 1850, it's general direotress, po
4 Tbieh Sic has held ever since --i4ondS
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