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Updated: June 25, 2025
One of the latter, Marie Barbier, who was afterwards called in religion Sister Mary of the Assumption, succeeded Sister Bourgeois as superior of the Congregation, and was the first member received in Ville-Marie. The school was formally opened on the Feast of St. Catherine, Nov. 25, 1659, and a secular society for young ladies was put in operation on the Feast of the Visitation the following year.
And Elise came to him, in the moonlight, leaning upon him, with soft, approving eyes Ah! where was she where in this whirlwind of the national fate? where was her frail life hidden? was she still in this Paris, so soon to be 'begirt with armies'? Four days later Barbier sent a note to Ancrum: 'Come and see me this afternoon at six o'clock. Say nothing to Grieve.
George Sand walking the Paris quays in male dress George Sand at Fontainebleau roaming the midnight forest with Alfred de Musset, or wintering with her dying musician among the mountains of Palma; Gerard de Nerval, wanderer, poet, and suicide; Alfred de Musset flaming into verse at dead of night amid an answering and spendthrift blaze of wax candles; Baudelaire's blasphemies and eccentricities these characters and incidents Barbier wove into endless highly coloured tales, to which David listened with perpetual relish.
While France was in travail of the palingenesis of the modern world, the futile king was trifling with his locks and keys and colouring maps, the queen playing at shepherdesses at Trianon or performing before courtiers, officers and equerries the rôles of Rosina in the Barbier de Seville and of Colette in the Devin du Village, the latter composed by the democratic philosopher, whose Contrat Social was to prove the Gospel of the Revolution.
To give an example, the rapid air sung by Figaro, on his entrance in the first act of "Le Barbiér de Séville," lasted fifty-eight minutes when the actor was particularly enthusiastic.
'Well, then, I can get some things ready, she said half to herself, staring across the baby into the fire. When David and Barbier were gone together 'up street, still talking over their plans, Louie leapt to her feet and laid the baby down carelessly, as though she no longer cared anything at all about it in the old-fashioned arm-chair wherein David spent so many midnight vigils.
To praise such an act would be to insult its authors. France our bleeding France! does but take stern note that her sons are faithful. David threw the paper down, made an excuse to Barbier, and went out. He could not talk to Barbier, to whom everything must be explained from the beginning, and his heart was full.
His very words were repeated to her Majesty, who said, "He is mad; I have nothing to say to him, and will not see him." Two or three days afterwards the Queen sent for me to Petit Trianon, to rehearse with me the part of Rosina, which she was to perform in the "Barbier de Seville." I was alone with her, sitting upon her couch; no mention was made of anything but the part.
During this fortnight she could never be counted on for work, not even when it was a question of finishing an important commission. She was too full of her various preparations. Barbier offered her for instance, a daily French lesson.
If he went he was determined to go under such conditions as would enable him to see French life especially French artistic and student life from the inside. And he saw with some clearness that he would have to take his sister with him. Against the latter notion Barbier protested vehemently. 'What do you want to tie yourself to a petticoat for? If you take the girl you will have to look after her.
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