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Title: The century illustrated monthly magazine
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: American literature
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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CORNEILLE READING 1OLYEUCTE AT THE HOTEL KAMUOUII.LET. 84 THE WOMEN OF THE FRENCH SALONS.
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DRAWN BY KEN YON COX- JACQUELINE ARNAULD — MERE ANGELIQUE. (FROM AN happily without seeing each other, it evidentlydid not end in a serious alienation. It suggests,however, a delicacy and exaltation of feelingwhich we are apt to accord only to love, andwhich go far towards disproving the verdictof Montaigne, that the soul of a woman isnot firm enough for so durable a tie as friend-ship. We like to dwell upon these inner phases ofa famous and powerful coterie, not only be-cause they bring before us so vividly the living,moving, thinking, loving women who composedit, letting us into their intimate life with itsquiet shadings, its fantastic humors, and itswayward caprices, but because they lead us tothe fountain-head of a new form of literaryexpression. The formal letters of Balzac hadbeen among the early entertainments of theHotel de Rambouillet, and Voiture had awitty or sentimental note for every occasion.Mile, de Scudery held a ready pen, and wasin the habit of noting down, in her

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