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    370 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.

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    CHRISTINA OF PISA.

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    The Princess Marie Of Orleans. A Statuet...

    the stock lier delicate health had sustained , her rapid decline and peaceful death—these form all the isodes of her innocent and

    inep tellectual existence . Her charities _were unbounded , but the same be said of all the females of that family the queen spent

    almost may her whole time in works of benevolenceand besides feeding , the hungry and clothing- the naked , the altars of many a chapel are

    enriched with elegant coverings , embroidered by these ladies whilst one of their brothers , their preceptors , or the king himself , read aloud

    to them , frequently in English , a language Louis Philippe had made almost his own .

    I was only a child at the time , but I remember well the last time I saw the fair Princess Marie . She was with her husband taking a

    drive ia the park of Meudon . The carriage went very slowly that it milit not shake the invalidwhosupported by cushions , sat

    lacid g and sweet as ever poor the natural , refinement , of her countenance increased p to an expression , perfectly ethereal , the long fair curls

    shading * a face white as her own marble statues , and looking wistfully out on the familiar trees , or the chance passer-by , as one who

    knows that each look may be her last ; and that was the last time she passed the palace gates alive .

    There were many poor who grieved for their benefactress , many educated who lamented the untimeldeath of the royal artist , and

    y to her own family the loss seemed irreparable , _" none remembering that the rihteous was taken from the evil to come . " And

    from how much g evil ! Poor royal away family ! so happy in their innocent intellectual enjoyments , what sufferings have been theirs ; abdication

    and exile for all ; death for how many ! The young man smitten down in all the glory of his thirty-two summers ; the king dying in

    a foreign land uncrowned ; then in two short weeks the lovely Louise , the Queen of the Belians ; then the yonng Duchess of Nemours

    called for ever from the g infant daughter she left in ill-fated Claremont ; and lastlthe widowed Duchess of Orleans . And the mother of them

    y , all , the saintly queen , still survives , she whom they all respected as something almost more than mortal , serene and benevolent as ever

    she rises above every storm , upheld by a strength which can never fail her . The s of her loved ones are " scattered far and -wide , "

    but the rock on grave which she leans moves not , and she sits placidly at the gate of heavenwaiting with firm serenity till the bolfc be

    very , withdrawn and she hears the glad summons , " Enter thou into the

    joy of thy Lord . "

    370 Biographical Notices.

    370 _BIOGRAPHICAL _NOTICES .

    Christina Of Pisa.

    CHRISTINA OF PISA .

    One of the most graceful and accomplished writers of French poetry ,

    in the latter part of the fourteenth century , was a woman , Christina

    of Pisa . She was an Italian by birth , but France was the country

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 370, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/10/