Interesting anecdotes of the heroic conduct of women, previous to, and during the French revolution by Du Broca Louis

Author:Du Broca, Louis. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Women
Publisher: Baltimore, Printed for Samuel Butler, by Fryer & Clark
Published: 1804-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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hap^, more by her courage than a»r other quality that this celebrated woman has merited" the eulogiums which have been lavished upon her. The following is the account she has herself given of her first imprisonment :

" When I found myself inclosed within four' dirty walls, saw a miserable bed without cur--tains, and a doubly grated window, and was aU so assailed with that disagreeable smell, which^ a person accustomed to cleanly apartments always finds in those that are dirty, Ifelt, in--deed, that I was in a prison : yet^ resolved to accomodate myself as much as possible to my circumstances, i derived some pleasure from observing that my chamber was suffici-^ ently roomy, that it had a fire-place, that the covering of the bed was tolerable, that I was supplied with a pillow ; I forbore to make comparisons, and deemed myself not badly ac--commodated. In this temper I went to bed, and resolved to remain in it as long as i found ' myself at ease : I had not even left my bed at ten the next morning, when my counsellor arrived. He was stiil more affected by my

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