Lanterna Rally

Author: W. R. H. Trowbridge

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-19

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9781331820345

Excerpt from Daughters of Eve With the exception of Charlotte Corday, that personification of the Marseillaise - who had the whole stage to herself for one sublime moment - none of the women whose strangely contrasted lives are recorded in this book can be said to occupy a conspicuous niche in the history of their times. Nevertheless, what they lack in public importance, which too often possesses only a political significance, they make up in private or human interest. It is as the merry magdalen with the heart of gold rather than as a brilliant and accomplished actress that Peg Woffington appeals to the imagination. The Duchesse de Choiseul deserves to be rescued from oblivion as the most devoted of wives and most loyal of friends in an age in which fidelity was held up to ridicule. Always true to herself, she knew how to command the respect of the sans-culottes of the Revolution in the day of her adversity, as in the period of her splendour she had cast the spell of her purity over the cynical and frivolous society of the old regime. Domestic happiness, which was her ideal, was the aim also of the Countess Potocka's feverish existence, but she sought it in a very different way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."