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Title: The Heroines of history;
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Jenkins, John S. (John Stilwell), 1818-1852
Subjects: Women Queens
Publisher: Auburn and Buffalo, J. E. Beardsley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the crowdthat cried, Down with the Austrian! One glanceat that scene of her pleasures and woes—the Tuileries,and she ascended the scaffold, knelt, and said, Lord,enlighten and soften the hearts of my executioners.Adieu forever, my children ; I go to join your father.Her children, in their distant dungeons, heard not the MARIE ANTOINETTE. 469 words, but we may trust they were heard in heaven.The glittering yet blood-stained blade fell; the execu-tioner lifted her head by the prematurely white hair,and the air echoed to the cry, Yiye la Bepublique !In her grave, where now stands the church of theMadeleine, were buried thirty-eight years of as joyousyouth, splendid pleasures, and awful tortures as everfell to the lot of a mortal. Hers was a wild, beautifuland noble nature, gentle yet tameless, ensnared fromfirst to last in an unparalleled series of events, and slowlytortured to lifes close by miseries which a superhumaningenuity could not have more terribly devised thandid her enemies.
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X. <: The mind is its own place.—Milton. Gee at events are the pedestals that bear aloft nobleand beautiful characters, which might else lie low inobscurity ; nay, they are the chisel strokes which givebold prominence to characters that might otherwise havebeen unskilfully shaped, or destined to grace only ahidden niche. The revolutions that have repeatedly,convulsed France must necessarily have furnished nu-merous subjects for history. Though there are manywhose career was longer and more brilliant, there arefew, if any, who came forth from the lower ranks oflife and secured, by their talent, such influence overintelligent minds as was gained by Madame Eoland.Gifted with a vivid imagination balanced by stronggood sense, quick perceptions, and clear reasoning powers, and inspired by an ambition to emulate the oldEoman heroines in the achievement of some great andvirtuous deed, it is not surprising that she should havesoared above the humble sphere in which her girlhoodwas placed,

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