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Mme. de La Fayette was some twenty-two years old, long past the usual marriageable age of French maidens, when, in 1655, she was married to the Count de La Fayette. Little is known of her married life. Boissier in his Vie de Mme. de Sévigné says: "When the correspondence of Mme. de Sévigné with her daughter begins , Mme. de La Fayette has been long a widow." But of this early widowhood there is no positive evidence, the weight of testimony being rather to the contrary. Those who are curious in this matter are referred to d'Haussonville's Vie de Mme. de La Fayette, where the whole controversy is summed up in the following words: "Une chose est certaine: c'est qu'il faut renoncer désormais
On dirait aux premiers rayons d'une aube d'hiver, terne et grise, le récit d'un rêve fait après une nuit d'insomnie, rêve poème, où les impressions et les objets se succèdent avec d'étranges incohérences et d'étranges transitions, comme ceux dont Byron dit: »....Dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, .............................. And look like heralds of Eternity.«
If he's a hero who can love and hate. As few can do, yet look just like the many; Who has a mind so poised by the weight Of his own worth, that e'en without a penny, Or one poor menial slave to grace his state, He'd feel as soaring and as proud of heart, As Rothschild's self or even Bonaparte. How many heroes never had a name! How many that have had one have none now!
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