tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25176043204530541402024-03-18T07:41:37.262-07:00Southern Folk Artist & Antiques Dealer/Collectorandrew1860http://www.blogger.com/profile/09302166776668727094noreply@blogger.comBlogger1112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517604320453054140.post-82408565179857584062019-10-15T13:11:00.001-07:002019-10-15T13:11:53.496-07:00Creole Mourning Folk Art by Andrew LaMar Hopkins "Till We Meet Again"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My latest painting finished on October 1st, is titled "Till We Meet Again" 12 x 12. Available thought my square account in. October gives us a opportunity to talk about traditions in death and Mourning in Creole New Orleans. This morning scene takes place in the year 1817. A white Creole Gentleman is mourning the lost of his recently departed complain, a Free Woman of Color. Who is depicted departed away in a cloud to the right of the Neoclassical Tomb. They are both dressed in the latest fashion from Paris for the year 1817. The tomb depicted in the painting is a fancy step tomb. One of the earliest types of tombs built in Creole New Orleans. Most of these early types of step tombs were built around a coffin that was placed on the ground and the tomb constructed above it. Then, as today, more affluent families prefer tombs as a sign of status and culture. In French, the word for tomb is "caveau"(cellar), or "caverne"(cave); "una tombe" is also a French term which may be applied. The Symbols on the tomb: Draped Urn. The design represents a funeral urn and is thought to symbolize immortality. </div>
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Cremation was an early form of preparing the dead for burial. In some periods, especially classical times, it was more common than burial. The shape of the container in which the ashes were placed may have taken the form of a simple box or a marble vase, but no matter what it looked like it was called an "urn," derived from the Latin uro, meaning "to burn." As burial became a more common practice, the urn continued to be closely associated with death. The urn is commonly believed to testify to the death of the body and the dust into which the dead body will change, while the spirit of the departed eternally rests with God.</div>
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The cloth draping the urn symbolically guarded the ashes. The shroud-draped urn is believed by some to mean that the soul has departed the shrouded body for its trip to heaven. Others say that the drape signifies the last partition between life and death. Winged Hourglass: Hourglasses represent the passing of time and the end of a person’s time on earth. A winged hourglass on a gravestone is a symbol of the fleetingness of life. Upside-down Flaming Torch:</div>
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Flames represent eternal light or life. An upside-down torch symbolizes light that cannot be extinguished. Cross: A Christian symbol of faith and the hope of ‘resurrection’ to ‘eternal life’ in ‘heaven’. </div>
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History of the Symbolism of the Willow Tree</div>
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The willow tree has a long history of symbolism rooted in spirituality and cultural traditions. There are references to the willow tree in Celtic and Christian tradition, among others. One of the most valuable traits of the willow tree is its flexibility. The willow tree is one of the few trees that is capable of bending in outrageous poses without snapping. Life on Earth can't exist without water, which is why the willow, a tree found in or near watery bodies, figures so prominently in creation legends, biblical references, Shakespearean tragedy and modern associations. The meaning of a willow tree shifts from author to author, but it's always an important symbol or representation in literature and mythology.</div>
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Biblical references to willow trees include Psalm 137, in which Jews held in captivity to Babylon weep remembering their homeland: "There on the willow trees, we hung up our harps." Instead of a source of power, the willow here symbolizes loss, along with the hope of future retrieval. But the willow maintains its life force in Ezekiel 17:5 where the prophet plants a fruitful seed and "sets it like a willow tree," suggesting permanence and revival. It's also celebratory, as Leviticus 23:40 commands believers to take "willows of the brook" as a festival offering.</div>
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The most obvious meaning of a weeping willow would seem to be the “weeping” part…for mourning or grieving for a loved one. The saying “she is in her willows” implies the mourning of a female for a lost mate. And while the Victorians took the art of mourning to new heights, the weeping willow was not just a symbol for sadness. </div>
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A native of Asia, the weeping willow is a fast growing tree that can reach fifty feet high and fifty feet wide. It tolerates most any soil and roots easily from cuttings. Because of this, they are often the first trees to appear in a disturbed site, giving them a reputation as “healers and renewers.” In many cultures, the willow is a sign of immortality, and is associated with the moon, water and femininity. The weeping willow also has connections to Greece as Orpheus, their most celebrated poet, carried willow branches with him on his journey through the Underworld. The Greek sorceress Circe planted a riverside cemetery with willow trees, dedicated to Hecate and her moon magic. It was common to place willow branches in the coffins of the dead, and then plant young saplings on their graves, with the belief that the spirit of the dead would rise up through the tree.</div>
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Plaçage was a recognized extralegal system in French and Spanish slave colonies of North America (including the Caribbean) by which ethnic European men entered into civil unions with non-Europeans of African, Native American and mixed-race descent. The term comes from the French placer meaning "to place with". The women were not legally recognized as wives but were known as placées; their relationships were recognized among the free people of color as mariages de la main gauche or left-handed marriages. They became institutionalized with contracts or negotiations that settled property on the woman and her children, and in some cases gave them freedom if they were enslaved. The system flourished throughout the French and Spanish colonial periods, reaching its zenith during the latter, between 1769 and 1803.</div>
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It was widely practiced in New Orleans, where planter society had created enough wealth to support the system. It also took place in the Latin-influenced cities of Natchez and Biloxi, Mississippi; Mobile, Alabama; St. Augustine and Pensacola, Florida; as well as Saint-Domingue (now the Republic of Haiti). Plaçage became associated with New Orleans as part of its cosmopolitan society.</div>
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<br />andrew1860http://www.blogger.com/profile/09302166776668727094noreply@blogger.com73tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517604320453054140.post-31898362595766352452019-06-10T15:36:00.002-07:002019-06-10T15:40:07.572-07:00 "Neptune's Bathroom" By Creole Folk Artist Andrew LaMar Hopkins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My latest painting "Neptune's Bathroom" 12 x 12 is inspired by Christian Dior’s beautiful Neoclassical inspired Bathroom from his Château de la Colle Noire. The French designer bought the 123-acre Château in the South of France in 1951 and loving began renovating the 29-room Château and landscape the grounds where he mentioned he hoped to retire someday in his 1956 autobiography Dior on Dior.</div>
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“I think of this house now as my real home, the home to which, God willing, I shall one day retire, the home where perhaps I will one day forget Christian Dior, Couturier, and become the neglected private individual again.”</div>
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Christian Dior unfortunately passed away in 1957 and never realized his retirement dream. The Château was bought and sold many times over the years and the contents auctioned off. In 2013, Christian Dior Parfums bought the home and spent the last three years renovating it and buying back original furnishings.</div>
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Christian Dior's Bathroom MONTAUROUX, VAR, FRANCE : La Colle Noire castle once owned by fashion designer Christian Dior now fully restored following a two and half year restoration project initiated by Bernard Arnault of Christian Dior Parfums . </div>
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Christian Dior design his bathroom himself after studying French period Barthrooms from the Directoire, Consulate, and Empire periods. Thank goodness the original fixtures remain in the castle. </div>
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Christian Dior's Bathroom today @ Château de la Colle Noire:</div>
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A wonderful shell encrusted bust of Neptune I used in my painting </div>
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Nice English Neoclassical design I used on the marble bathtub </div>
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My latest Masterpiece is titled "Wintertime in 18th century Louisiana" 8 x 10 Available. It shows a late 18th century Louisiana interior with fashionably dressed Free Woman of Color playing a lute,seated in a gilt wood Louis XVI style chair next to a fire in a Creole Neoclassical style carved wrap-around mantel. On the mantel is a Mahogany, marble and ormolu Louis XVI style Lyre shaped clock, a George III ormolu mount blue john vase. Blue John (also known as Derbyshire Spar) is a English semi-precious mineral, a form of fluorite with bands of a purple-blue or yellowish color. Blue John was so popular in the 18th and early 19th century for its ornamental value it was mined out. And Hurricane globe with mid 18th century brass Louis XV candlestick. Next to the curtain is a Passementerie Bell pull. #outsiderart #folkart #Art #artist #artcollector #blackhistorymonth #artistsoninstagram #creole #Passementerie #instaart #contemporaryart #creoleartist #arte #artcollectors #modernart #creoleart #artbrut #fineart #Freepeopleofcolor #AfricanAmericanartist #selftaught #folkartpaintings #southernfolkart #naiveart #vernacularart #blackart #originalart #Neworleansart #folkartist #Louisianaart</div>
<br />andrew1860http://www.blogger.com/profile/09302166776668727094noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517604320453054140.post-49756225491660200472018-09-06T08:57:00.000-07:002018-09-06T08:57:36.295-07:00Today's Purchase! Federal period coin silver spoon. Part 1. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Early 19th century New York city made coin silver tablespoon in the Fiddle pattern. Made by New York city silversmith Maltby Pelletreau </div>
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Today I bought a Fiddle pattern American Federal period coin silver table spoon in a French Quarter junk shop. When I fist saw the spoon I had hoped it might be a rare piece of New Orleans made Creole silver. After looking up the mark I found it was made by New York city silversmith Maltby Pelletreau (American b. 1791) of French Huguenot ancestry and still might have a New Orleans connection. The Pelletreau family originated from France and arrived in Massachusetts with twelve other Huguenot families in 1686. The family moved to Southampton, New York in 1728. Maltby Pelletreau's Grandfather Elias Pelletreau was the first silversmith in the family, working from 1750 - 1810 making gold jewelry, shoe buckles, tankards, silverware, etc. He became well-known as a silversmith in early America selling his wares to clients between Connecticut and New Jersey. He is considered a local hero for his role as Captain of the Suffolk County Militia and his financial backing of and participation in the American Revolution. His Grandson who made this spoon 🥄, Maltby Pelletreau was the third generation of this illustrious American silversmithing family. He worked in New York city from 1813 to 1840. Maltby Pelletreau, who had been in business in New York City since at least 1813, was engaged in a series of partnerships in Charleston South Carolina, and New Orleans where his New York city made silver was exported to the South. Researching antiques is just as exciting as finding them. This one ☝️ 200 year old spoon 🥄 found in a junk shop in New Orleans, made in New York City 🌃 by a person of French Huguenot Heritage is steeped full of American history is just more then a spoon 🥄. In a day where most people would rather have flatware 🍴 from IKEA 😳! Here @ Le Château de Hopkins we are sticking to the old stuff full of history and Beauty!</div>
<br />andrew1860http://www.blogger.com/profile/09302166776668727094noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517604320453054140.post-75260196067906452982018-03-02T06:53:00.000-08:002018-03-02T06:53:01.075-08:00"A Receipt for Creole Courtship" by Creole Folk Artist Andrew LaMar Hopkins <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"A Receipt for Creole Courtship" by Creole Folk Artist Andrew LaMar Hopkins </div>
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My latest masterpiece is titled "A Receipt for Creole Courtship" 12 x 9, Available. It depicts two New Orleans Creole free people of color in a early 19th century Creole Federal interior, the home of the free woman of color. A free man of color hands a free woman of color a receipt for courtship. The setting is a parlor in a Creole cottage in the French Quarter that is elegantly furnished with the latest fashion of Creole/French furniture and decorative arts! A quarter of the houses along the main streets of Creole New Orleans were owned by free blacks, many of whom were single women. </div>
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Creole cottages are mostly modest homes on the exterior. Creole's did not show off with the architecture of homes, like the Americans that were flooding the area. But Creole interiors were elegantly furnished like this room. During the antebellum period, Louisiana's free people of color enjoyed a relatively high level of acceptance and prosperity, a legacy of the state's French and Spanish founders. The Free woman of color is seated on a Louisiana Creole Campeachy chair and dressed in a white linen flowing dress in the classical Greek fashion made popular in the early 19th century. </div>
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She wears a Parure (matching set of jewelry comprising a diadem, a necklace, two earrings and bracelets ) made of coral and gold. In the 18th-19th century people thought that coral was a powerful protector against both sorcery and the Evil Eye, this substance also wards off nightmares. Coral is to be rubbed against a baby’s gums to aid with teething and hung around the necks of older children to keep them safe from witchcraft.</div>
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Red coral is especially beneficial, offering protection to ships and houses against storms. This shade will also turn pale if its wearer’s health takes a turn for the worse but will return to its original hue as the patient recovers. The furnishings and decorative arts in the room is a mix of Creole and French. To the left of the painting is a mahogany Creole armoire in the Federal manner dating from the early 19th century. It has inverted reeded baluster legs ending in brass paw feet. The free woman is seated in a Louisiana Creole Campeachy arm chair. </div>
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Campeachy chairs originated in the Mexican port city of Campeche. This style of chair was made locally in Creole Louisiana in the 18th and early 19th century. To the right of the chair is a Creole Federal style serving table with brass ball feet. On the serving table is a Empire Old Paris porcelain coffee pot and two coffee cans and saucers with coin silver spoon. Next to the porcelain is a ornate French painted tole basket. Over the serving table is a copy of "The Prince Henryk Lubomirski as Love of Glory" by French female artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun painter to French Queen Marie Antoinette. </div>
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At age six, Henryk Lubomirski (1777–1850) was abducted by a wealthy but distant relative, who, regretting her lack of a male heir, reared him as her own. Vigée Le Brun presents the handsome boy in the pose of a famous Crouching Venus of antiquity, as interpreted by the French sculptor Antoine Coysevox. Creoles loved copies of Old Master paintings. On the side of the Federal drapery treatment are a pair of Federal Style Sheild Back Brass Candle Wall Sconces for light. On the floor is a Neoclassical wall to wall carpeting with laurel leaf wreath and star motif.</div>
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<br />andrew1860http://www.blogger.com/profile/09302166776668727094noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517604320453054140.post-46343840998256565292018-02-23T13:54:00.001-08:002018-02-23T13:54:17.439-08:00"The Birth of Creole Venus" by Creole Folk Artist Andrew LaMar Hopkins <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"The Birth of Creole Venus" 20 x 16 by Creole Folk Artist Andrew LaMar Hopkins </div>
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A true great Artist paints throughout the year but only creates a few true Masterpieces during that time. This is one of them. This is the first painting in a series and period I have entered called my "Creole Renaissance Period" I give to the world "The Birth of Creole Venus" 20 x 16, Available. My good French friend Pierre de Pontalba who saw the beginning stages of this painting said "This looks like a crossover of Botticelli, Dali and Hopkins" ! </div>
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My painting depicts the goddess Creole Venus arriving at a Louisiana shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the Bayou fully-grown ,called Venus Anadyomene. In the center the newly-born goddess Creole Venus stands nude on a peal in a giant oyster shell. An Eastern Brown Pelican, the state bird of Louisiana spreads his wings after just landing on Creole Venus large oyster shell as well as a White Heron. at the base of the giant oyster shell Louisiana blue crab and a Alligator turtle come to greet Creole Venus. Mud crayfish's mound's can be seen by the alligator. At the left the wind god Zephyr blows at her, with the wind shown by lines radiating from his mouth. He is in the air, and carries a young female, "Aura", personification of a lighter breeze, who is also blowing, Creole Venus to the Louisiana shore. Both have wings. </div>
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Their joint efforts are blowing Creole Venus towards the shore, and blowing the hair and clothes of the other figures to the right. To the left a Louisiana Indian arrives to pay homage to Creole Venus by a cypress dugout pirogue. Above Creole Venus head two doves kiss with one holding sassafras leaves for making Creole gumbo filé. Oleander flowers from the gods are blown along with the two flying figures. At the right a female figure holds out a rich cloak or dress to cover Venus when she reaches the shore, as she is about to do. She is one of the three Horae or Hours, Greek minor goddesses of the seasons and of other divisions of time, and attendants of Venus. She stands on a Louisiana shore with orange trees and banana trees! A alligator open month is at her feet.</div>
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18th century English Georgian carved Carnelian of Antinous Watch Fob seal. </div>
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In the collection of Le Château de Hopkins, A 18th century English Georgian Carnelian Watch Fob seal pendant with a Intaglio profile bust of Antinous (c. AD 110/11-30), a favourite, or lover, of the Roman emperor Hadrian. He was deified after his death, being worshiped in both the Greek East and Latin West, sometimes as a god (theos) and sometimes merely as a hero (heros). This representation of Antinous is closely related to the famous "Antinous Marlborough Gem" The Marlborough Sardonix is a black stone jewel intaglio with the image of Antinous that was signed by Antoninianus of Aphrodisia, the only artist known to have signed his name on his work. </div>
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The Marlborough Sardonix is generally regarded as one of the finest portrait gems from antiquity. The British house of Marlborough still owns the original. It is thought to have been worn as a ring by Emperor Hadrian himself. That relief immediately became immensely popular in Georgian, England; Nathaniel Marchant RA (1739–1816) was an English gem engraver and Edward Burch one of the most celebrated gem engravers of the late eighteenth century England made high quality copies of "The Antinous Marlborough Gem" Intaglio gems are hard semi-precious stones which have been cut with intaglio figures and designs so that they can be set, usually in finger rings, and used as seals if you press them into sealing wax or clay. They are, moreover, often set in expensive and exquisite jewelry mounts or rings.</div>
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With the growth of a wealthier middle class during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the rise of manufacturing, the demand for masculine accessories grew as well. Men’s fashion in the eighteenth century tended to lean toward the flamboyant side, with men showing off nearly as much jewelry as their female counterparts. Men’s accessories also followed a strict protocol which was dictated by the aristocracy; one had to make sure to be dressed both correctly as well as completely.</div>
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Jeweled rings, watch chains, diamond shoe buckles, and in some cases even diamond buttons were part of the aristocratic male’s fashion repertoire. Even as men’s accessories became less pronounced as the eighteenth century progressed into the nineteenth, masculine dress still retained certain features of personal adornment: jeweled cravat pins, watch fobs and seals, gem and paste rings. As is the same with female accessories. </div>
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An important accessory to the seventeenth and eighteenth century man, a watch fob and seal was an object directly attached to the chain of one’s pocket watch. A watch chain was used to suspend one’s watch from the waistcoat’s “fob pocket,” from which also hung the watch fob, usually with an attached seal at the bottom end of the fob. Fobs were often cone-like in form, attached to the watch chain with a metal loop at the narrow end of the fob. The seal was on the wide, circular end of the fob.</div>
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My latest Masterpiece is titled "Alix de Morainville or Versailles in the Louisiana Wilderness" 11 x 14, Available. After reading about this interesting French aristocrat from the Court of Marie Antoinette that settled in Louisiana in "Strange True Stories of Louisiana" by George Washington Cable. I had to paint her. Alix de Morainville story begins when she befriends two French Creole sisters when they made the dangerous trek by flatboat from New Orleans to the mostly unsettled lands of north Louisiana in 1795. Alix de Morainville settled in a abandoned cottage in a area that is now called Pattersonville, Louisiana. The cottage was was surround by live oaks and orange trees! </div>
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Alix furnished her cottage with some furnishing she escaped the French Revolution with, like her harp, portraits of her parents, silver and silk and satin dresses worn at the Court of Versailles by her and her mother. What is most fascinating is she wrote her life story to her two companions of the flatboat trip to North Louisiana. It gives me great pleasure to work on a painting like this, where the story is so well documented. Painting by painting I am bringing Louisiana's colorful history, people and forgotten stories back to life. You can read about her interesting life in her own words. </div>
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ALIX DE MORAINVILLE</div>
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_Written in Louisiana this 22d of August, 1795, for my dear friends</div>
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I have promised you the story of my life, my very dear and good friends</div>
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with whom I have had so much pleasure on board the flatboat which has</div>
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brought us all to Attakapas. I now make good my promise.</div>
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And first I must speak of the place where I was born, of the beautiful</div>
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Chateau de Morainville, built above the little village named Morainville</div>
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in honor of its lords. This village, situated in Normandy on the margin of</div>
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the sea, was peopled only and entirely by fishermen, who gained a</div>
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livelihood openly by sardine-fishing, and secretly, it was said, by</div>
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smuggling. The chateau was built on a cliff, which it completely occupied.</div>
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This cliff was formed of several terraces that rose in a stair one above</div>
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another. On the topmost one sat the chateau, like an eagle in its nest. It</div>
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had four dentilated turrets, with great casements and immense galleries,</div>
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that gave it the grandest possible aspect. On the second terrace you found</div>
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yourself in the midst of delightful gardens adorned with statues and</div>
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fountains after the fashion of the times. Then came the avenue, entirely</div>
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overshaded with trees as old as Noah, and everywhere on the hill, forming</div>
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the background of the picture, an immense park. How my Suzanne would have</div>
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loved to hunt in that beautiful park full of deer, hare, and all sorts of</div>
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feathered game!</div>
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And yet no one inhabited that beautiful domain. Its lord and mistress, the</div>
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Count Gaston and Countess Aurelie, my father and mother, resided in Paris,</div>
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and came to their chateau only during the hunting season, their sojourn</div>
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never exceeding six weeks.</div>
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Already they had been five years married. The countess, a lady of honor to</div>
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the young dauphine, Marie Antoinette, bore the well-merited reputation of</div>
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being the most charming woman at the court of the king, Louis the</div>
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Fifteenth. Count and countess, wealthy as they were and happy as they</div>
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seemed to be, were not overmuch so, because of their desire for a son; for</div>
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one thing, which is not seen in this country, you will not doubt, dear</div>
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girls, exists in France and other countries of Europe: it is the eldest</div>
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son, and never the daughter, who inherits the fortune and titles of the</div>
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family. And in case there were no children, the titles and fortune of the</div>
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Morainvilles would have to revert in one lump to the nephew of the count</div>
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and son of his brother, to Abner de Morainville, who at that time was a</div>
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mere babe of four years. This did not meet the wishes of M. and Mme. de</div>
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Morainville, who wished to retain their property in their own house.</div>
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But great news comes to Morainville: the countess is with child. The</div>
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steward of the chateau receives orders to celebrate the event with great</div>
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rejoicings. In the avenue long tables are set covered with all sorts of</div>
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inviting meats, the fiddlers are called, and the peasants dance, eat, and</div>
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drink to the health of the future heir of the Morainvilles. A few months</div>
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later my parents arrived bringing a great company with them; and there</div>
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were feasts and balls and hunting-parties without end.</div>
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It was in the course of one of these hunts that my mother was thrown from</div>
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her horse. She was hardly in her seventh month when I came into the world.</div>
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She escaped death, but I was born as large as--a mouse! and with one</div>
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shoulder much higher than the other.</div>
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I must have died had not the happy thought come to the woman-in-waiting to</div>
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procure Catharine, the wife of the gardener, Guillaume Carpentier, to be</div>
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my nurse; and it is to her care, to her rubbings, and above all to her</div>
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good milk, that I owe the capability to amuse you, my dear girls and</div>
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friends, with the account of my life--that life whose continuance I truly</div>
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owe to my mother Catharine.</div>
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When my actual mother had recovered she returned to Paris; and as my</div>
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nurse, who had four boys, could not follow her, it was decided that I</div>
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should remain at the chateau and that my mother Catharine should stay</div>
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there with me.</div>
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Her cottage was situated among the gardens. Her husband, father Guillaume,</div>
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was the head gardener, and his four sons were Joseph, aged six years; next</div>
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Matthieu, who was four; then Jerome, two; and my foster-brother Bastien, a</div>
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big lubber of three months.</div>
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My father and mother did not at all forget me. They sent me playthings of</div>
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all sorts, sweetmeats, silken frocks adorned with embroideries and laces,</div>
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and all sorts of presents for mother Catharine and her children. I was</div>
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happy, very happy, for I was worshiped by all who surrounded me. Mother</div>
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Catharine preferred me above her own children. Father Guillaume would go</div>
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down upon his knees before me to get a smile [risette], and Joseph often</div>
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tells me he swooned when they let him hold me in his arms. It was a happy</div>
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time, I assure you; yes, very happy.</div>
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I was two years old when my parents returned, and as they had brought a</div>
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great company with them the true mother instructed my nurse to take me</div>
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back to her cottage and keep me there, that I might not be disturbed by</div>
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noise. Mother Catharine has often said to me that my mother could not bear</div>
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to look at my crippled shoulder, and that she called me a hunchback. But</div>
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after all it was the truth, and my nurse-mother was wrong to lay that</div>
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reproach upon my mother Aurelie.</div>
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Seven years passed. I had lived during that time the life of my</div>
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foster-brothers, flitting everywhere with them over the flowery grass like</div>
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the veritable lark that I was. Two or three times during that period my</div>
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parents came to see me, but without company, quite alone. They brought me</div>
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a lot of beautiful things; but really I was afraid of them, particularly</div>
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of my mother, who was so beautiful and wore a grand air full of dignity</div>
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and self-regard. She would kiss me, but in a way very different from</div>
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One fine day she arrived at the cottage with a tall, slender lady who wore</div>
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blue spectacles on a singularly long nose. She frightened me, especially</div>
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I uttered piercing cries; but my mother, without paying any attention to</div>
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my screams, lifted me cleverly, planted two spanks behind, and passed me</div>
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to the hands of Mme. Levicq--that was the name of my governess. The next</div>
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day my mother left me and I repeated my disturbance, crying, stamping my</div>
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feet, and calling to mother Catharine and Bastien. (To tell the truth,</div>
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Jerome and Matthieu were two big lubbers [rougeots] very peevish and</div>
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coarse-mannered, which I could not endure.) Madame put a book into my</div>
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hands and wished to have me repeat after her; I threw the book at her</div>
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head. Then, rightly enough, in despair she placed me where I could see the</div>
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cottage in the midst of the garden and told me that when the lesson was</div>
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ended I might go and see my mother Catharine and play with my brothers. I</div>
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This Mme. Levicq was most certainly a woman of good sense. She had a kind</div>
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heart and much ability. She taught me nearly all I know--first of all,</div>
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French; the harp, the guitar, drawing, embroidery; in short, I say again,</div>
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I was fourteen years old when my mother came, and this time not alone. My</div>
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cousin Abner was with her. My mother had me called into her chamber,</div>
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closely examined my shoulder, loosed my hair, looked at my teeth, made me</div>
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read, sing, play the harp, and when all this was ended smiled and said:</div>
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"You are beautiful, my daughter; you have profited by the training of your</div>
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governess; the defect of your shoulder has not increased. I am</div>
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satisfied--well satisfied; and I am going to tell you that I have brought</div>
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the Viscomte Abner de Morainville because I have chosen him for your</div>
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future husband. Go, join him in the avenue."</div>
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I was a little dismayed at first, but when I had seen my intended my</div>
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dismay took flight--he was such a handsome fellow, dressed with so much</div>
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taste, and wore his sword with so much grace and spirit. At the end of two</div>
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days he loved me to distraction and I doted on him. I brought him to my</div>
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nurse's cabin and told her all our plans of marriage and all my happiness,</div>
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not observing the despair of poor Joseph, who had always worshiped me and</div>
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who had not doubted he would have me to love. But who would have thought</div>
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it--a laboring gardener lover of his lord's daughter? Ah, I would have</div>
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On the evening before my departure--I had to leave with my mother this</div>
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time--I went to say adieu to mother Catharine. She asked me if I loved</div>
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"Oh, yes, mother!" I replied, "I love him with all my soul"; and she said</div>
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she was happy to hear it. Then I directed Joseph to go and request</div>
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Monsieur the cure, in my name, to give him lessons in reading and writing,</div>
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in order to be able to read the letters that I should write to my</div>
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nurse-mother and to answer them. This order was carried out to the letter,</div>
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and six months later Joseph was the correspondent of the family and read</div>
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to them my letters. That was his whole happiness.</div>
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I had been quite content to leave for Paris: first, because Abner went</div>
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with me, and then because I hoped to see a little of all those beautiful</div>
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things of which he had spoken to me with so much charm; but how was I</div>
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disappointed! My mother kept me but one day at her house, and did not even</div>
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allow Abner to come to see me. During that day I must, she said, collect</div>
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my thoughts preparatory to entering the convent. For it was actually to</div>
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the convent of the Ursulines, of which my father's sister was the</div>
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superior, that she conducted me next day.</div>
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Think of it, dear girls! I was fourteen, but not bigger than a lass of</div>
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ten, used to the open air and to the caresses of mother Catharine and my</div>
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brothers. It seemed to me as if I were a poor little bird shut in a great</div>
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dark cage.</div>
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My aunt, the abbess, Agnes de Morainville, took me to her room, gave me</div>
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bonbons and pictures, told me stories, and kissed and caressed me, but her</div>
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black gown and her bonnet appalled me, and I cried with all my might:</div>
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"I want mother Catharine! I want Joseph! I want Bastien!"</div>
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My aunt, in despair, sent for three or four little pupils to amuse me; but</div>
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this was labor lost, and I continued to utter the same outcries. At last,</div>
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utterly spent, I fell asleep, and my aunt bore me to my little room and</div>
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put me to bed, and then slowly withdrew, leaving the door ajar.</div>
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some hundreds of children slept; but on the first there were a number of</div>
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small chambers, the sole furniture of each being a folding bed, a</div>
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washstand, and a chair, and you had to pay its weight in gold for the</div>
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privilege of occupying one of these cells, in order not to be mixed with</div>
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the daughters of the bourgeoisie, of lawyers and merchants. My mother, who</div>
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was very proud, had exacted absolutely that they give me one of these</div>
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Hardly had my aunt left me when I awoke, and fear joined itself to grief.</div>
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Fancy it! I had never lain down in a room alone, and here I awoke in a</div>
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corner of a room half lighted by a lamp hung from the ceiling. You can</div>
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guess I began again my writhings and cries. Thereupon appeared before me</div>
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in the open door the most beautiful creature imaginable. I took her for a</div>
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fairy, and fell to gazing at her with my eyes full of amazement and</div>
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admiration. You have seen Madelaine, and you can judge of her beauty in</div>
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her early youth. It was a fabulous beauty joined to a manner fair, regal,</div>
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and good.</div>
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She took me in her arms, dried my tears, and at last, at the extremity of</div>
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her resources, carried me to her bed; and when I awoke the next day I</div>
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found myself still in the arms of Madelaine de Livilier. From that moment</div>
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began between us that great and good friendship which was everything for</div>
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me during the time that I passed in the convent. I should have died of</div>
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loneliness and grief without Madelaine. I had neither brothers nor</div>
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sisters; she was both these to me: she was older than I, and protected me</div>
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while she loved me.</div>
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She was the niece of the rich Cardinal de Segur, who had sent and brought</div>
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her from Louisiana. This is why Madelaine had such large privileges at the</div>
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convent. She told me she was engaged to the young Count Louis le</div>
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Pelletrier de la Houssaye, and I, with some change of color, told her of</div>
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Abner.</div>
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One day Madelaine's aunt, the Countess de Segur, came to take her to spend</div>
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the day at her palace. My dear friend besought her aunt with such</div>
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graciousness that she obtained permission to take me with her, and for the</div>
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first time I saw the Count Louis, Madelaine's _fiance_. He was a very</div>
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handsome young man, of majestic and distinguished air. He had hair and</div>
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eyes as black as ink, red lips, and a fine mustache. He wore in his</div>
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buttonhole the cross of the royal order of St. Louis, and on his shoulders</div>
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the epaulettes of a major. He had lately come from San Domingo [where he</div>
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had been fighting the insurgents at the head of his regiment].[23] Yes, he</div>
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was a handsome young man, a bold cavalier; and Madelaine idolized him.</div>
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After that day I often accompanied my friend in her visits to the home of</div>
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her aunt. Count Louis was always there to wait upon his betrothed, and</div>
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Abner, apprised by him, came to join us. Ah! that was a happy time, very</div>
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At the end of a year my dear Madelaine quitted the convent to be married.</div>
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Ah, how I wept to see her go! I loved her so! I had neither brothers nor</div>
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sisters, and Madelaine was my heart's own sister. I was very young,</div>
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scarcely fifteen; yet, despite my extreme youth, Madelaine desired me to</div>
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be her bridesmaid, and her aunt, the Countess de Segur, and the Baroness</div>
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de Chevigne, Count Louis's aunt, went together to find my mother and ask</div>
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her to permit me to fill that office. My mother made many objections,</div>
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saying that I was too young; but--between you and me--she could refuse</div>
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nothing to ladies of such high station. She consented, therefore, and</div>
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proceeded at once to order my costume at the dressmaker's.</div>
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It was a mass of white silk and lace with intermingled pearls. For the</div>
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occasion my mother lent me her pearls, which were of great magnificence.</div>
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But, finest of all, the Queen, Marie Antoinette, saw me at the church of</div>
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Notre Dame, whither all the court had gathered for the occasion,--for</div>
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Count Louis de la Houssaye was a great favorite,--and now the queen sent</div>
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one of her lords to apprise my mother that she wished to see me, and</div>
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commanded that I be presented at court--_grande rumeur_!</div>
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Mamma consented to let me remain the whole week out of the convent. Every</div>
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day there was a grand dinner or breakfast and every evening a dance or a</div>
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grand ball. Always it was Abner who accompanied me. I wrote of all my</div>
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pleasures to my mother Catharine. Joseph read my letters to her, and, as</div>
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he told me in later days, they gave him mortal pain. For the presentation</div>
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my mother ordered a suit all of gold and velvet. Madelaine and I were</div>
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presented the same day. The Countess de Segur was my escort [marraine] and</div>
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took me by the hand, while Mme. de Chevigne rendered the same office to</div>
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Madelaine. Abner told me that day I was as pretty as an angel. If I was so</div>
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to him, it was because he loved me. I knew, myself, I was too small, too</div>
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pale, and ever so different from Madelaine. It was she you should have</div>
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I went back to the convent, and during the year that I passed there I was</div>
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lonely enough to have died. It was decided that I should be married</div>
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immediately on leaving the convent, and my mother ordered for me the most</div>
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beautiful wedding outfit imaginable. My father bought me jewels of every</div>
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sort, and Abner did not spare of beautiful presents.</div>
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I had been about fifteen days out of the convent when terrible news caused</div>
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me many tears. My dear Madelaine was about to leave me forever and return</div>
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to America. The reason was this: there was much disorder in the colony of</div>
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Louisiana, and the king deciding to send thither a man capable of</div>
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restoring order, his choice fell upon Count Louis de la Houssaye, whose</div>
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noble character he had recognized. Count Louis would have refused, for he</div>
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had a great liking for France; but [he had lately witnessed the atrocities</div>
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committed by the negroes of San Domingo, and[24]] something--a</div>
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presentiment--warned him that the Revolution was near at hand. He was glad</div>
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to bear his dear wife far from the scenes of horror that were approaching</div>
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with rapid strides.</div>
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Madelaine undoubtedly experienced pleasure in thinking that she was again</div>
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going to see her parents and her native land, but she regretted to leave</div>
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France, where she had found so much amusement and where I must remain</div>
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behind her without hope of our ever seeing each other again. She wept, oh,</div>
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so much!</div>
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She had bidden me good-bye and we had wept long, and her last evening, the</div>
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eve of the day when she was to take the diligence for Havre, where the</div>
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vessel awaited them, was to be passed in family group at the residence of</div>
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the Baroness de Chevigne. Here were present, first the young couple; the</div>
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Cardinal, the Count and Countess de Segur; then Barthelemy de la Houssaye,</div>
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brother of the Count, and the old Count de [Maurepas, only a few months</div>
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returned from exile and now at the pinnacle of royal favor].[24] He had</div>
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said when he came that he could stay but a few hours and had ordered his</div>
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coach to await him below. He was the most lovable old man in the world.</div>
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All at once Madelaine said:</div>
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"Ah! if I could see Alix once more--only once more!"</div>
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The old count without a word slipped away, entered his carriage, and had</div>
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himself driven to the Morainville hotel, where there was that evening a</div>
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grand ball. Tarrying in the ante-chamber, he had my mother called. She</div>
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came with alacrity, and when she knew the object of the count's visit she</div>
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sent me to get a great white burnoose, enveloped me in it, and putting my</div>
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hand into the count's said to me:</div>
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"You have but to show yourself to secure the carriage." But the count</div>
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Oh, how glad my dear Madelaine was to see me! With what joy she kissed me!</div>
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A month after the departure of the De la Houssayes, my wedding was</div>
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celebrated at Notre Dame. It was a grand occasion. The king was present</div>
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with all the court. As my husband was in the king's service, the queen</div>
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wished me to become one of her ladies of honor.</div>
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Directly after my marriage I had Bastien come to me. I made him my</div>
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confidential servant. He rode behind my carriage, waited upon me at table,</div>
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I was married the 16th of March, 1789, at the age of sixteen. Already the</div>
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rumbling murmurs of the Revolution were making themselves heard like</div>
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distant thunder. On the 13th of July the Bastille was taken and the head</div>
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of the governor De Launay [was] carried through the streets.[25] My mother</div>
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was frightened and proposed to leave the country. She came to find me and</div>
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implored me to go with her to England, and asked Abner to accompany us.</div>
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My husband refused with indignation, declaring that his place was near his</div>
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"And mine near my husband," said I, throwing my arms around Abner's neck.</div>
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My father, like my husband, had refused positively to leave the king, and</div>
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it was decided that mamma should go alone. She began by visiting the</div>
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shops, and bought stuffs, ribbons, and laces. It was I who helped her pack</div>
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her trunks, which she sent in advance to Morainville. She did not dare go</div>
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to get her diamonds, which were locked up in the Bank of France; that</div>
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would excite suspicion, and she had to content herself with such jewelry</div>
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as she had at her residence. She left in a coach with my father, saying as</div>
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she embraced me that her absence would be brief, for it would be easy</div>
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enough to crush the vile mob. She went down to Morainville, and there,</div>
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thanks to the devotion of Guillaume Carpentier and of his sons, she was</div>
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carried to England in a contrabandist vessel. As she was accustomed to</div>
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luxury, she put into her trunks the plate of the chateau and also several</div>
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valuable pictures. My father had given her sixty thousand francs and</div>
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Soon I found myself in the midst of terrible scenes that I have not the</div>
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courage, my dear girls, to recount. The memory of them makes me even</div>
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to-day tremble and turn pale. I will only tell you that one evening a</div>
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furious populace entered our palace. I saw my husband dragged far from me</div>
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by those wretches, and just as two of the monsters were about to seize me</div>
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Bastien took me into his arms, and holding me tightly against his bosom</div>
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leaped from a window and took to flight with all his speed.</div>
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Happy for us that it was night and that the monsters were busy pillaging</div>
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the house. They did not pursue us at all, and my faithful Bastien took me</div>
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to the home of his cousin Claudine Leroy. She was a worker in lace, whom,</div>
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with my consent, he was to have married within the next fortnight. I had</div>
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lost consciousness, but Claudine and Bastien cared for me so well that</div>
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they brought me back to life, and I came to myself to learn that my father</div>
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and my husband had been arrested and conveyed to the Conciergerie.</div>
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My despair was great, as you may well think. Claudine arranged a bed for</div>
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me in a closet [cloisette] adjoining her chamber, and there I remained</div>
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At the end of four days I heard some one come into Claudine's room, and</div>
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then a deep male voice. My heart ceased to beat and I was about to faint</div>
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away, when I recognized the voice of my faithful Joseph. I opened the door</div>
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and threw myself upon his breast, crying over and over:</div>
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"O Joseph! dear Joseph!"</div>
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He pressed me to his bosom, giving me every sort of endearing name, and at</div>
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length revealed to me the plan he had formed, to take me at once to</div>
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Morainville under the name of Claudine Leroy. He went out with Claudine to</div>
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obtain a passport. Thanks to God and good angels Claudine was small like</div>
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me, had black hair and eyes like mine, and there was no trouble in</div>
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peasant dress, a suit of Claudine's, I easily passed for her.</div>
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Joseph had the diligence stop beside the park gate, of which he had</div>
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brought the key. He wished to avoid the village. We entered therefore by</div>
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the park, and soon I was installed in the cottage of my adopted parents,</div>
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and Joseph and his brothers said to every one that Claudine Leroy,</div>
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appalled by the horrors being committed in Paris, had come for refuge to</div>
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Then Joseph went back to Paris to try to save my father and my husband.</div>
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Bastien had already got himself engaged as an assistant in the prison. But</div>
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alas! all their efforts could effect nothing, and the only consolation</div>
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that Joseph brought back to Morainville was that he had seen its lords on</div>
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the fatal cart and had received my father's last smile. These frightful</div>
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tidings failed to kill me; I lay a month between life and death, and</div>
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Joseph, not to expose me to the recognition of the Morainville physician,</div>
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went and brought one from Rouen. The good care of mother Catharine was the</div>
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best medicine for me, and I was cured to weep over my fate and my cruel</div>
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It was at this juncture that for the first time I suspected that Joseph</div>
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loved me. His eyes followed me with a most touching expression; he paled</div>
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and blushed when I spoke to him, and I divined the love which the poor</div>
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fellow could not conceal. It gave me pain to see how he loved me, and</div>
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increased my wish to join my mother in England. I knew she had need of me,</div>
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Meanwhile a letter came to the address of father</div>
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Guillaume. It was a contrabandist vessel that brought</div>
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of the first evening</div>
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other to the address</div>
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recognized the writing</div>
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set me to sobbing</div>
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demanded of</div>
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added that Abner and I must come also, and that it was nonsense to wish to</div>
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remain faithful to a lost cause. She begged my father to go and draw her</div>
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diamonds from the bank and to send them to her with at least a hundred</div>
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thousand francs. Oh! how I wept after seeing</div>
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then to make. Then</div>
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would be so well pleased</div>
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the money of</div>
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who had business there. But one day--God knows how it happened--a child of</div>
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the village all at once entered the chamber where I was and knew me.</div>
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"Madame Alix!" he cried, took to his heels and went down the terrace</div>
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pell-mell [quatre a quatre] to give the alarm. Ten minutes later Matthieu</div>
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came at a full run and covered with sweat, to tell us that all the village</div>
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was in commotion and that those people to whom I had always been so good</div>
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were about to come and arrest me, to deliver me to the executioners. I ran</div>
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to Joseph, beside myself with affright.</div>
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"Save me, Joseph! save me!"</div>
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"I will use all my efforts for that, Mme. la Viscomtesse." At that moment</div>
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Jerome appeared. He came to say that a representative of the people was at</div>
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"Not yet," responded Joseph. "I have foreseen this and have prepared</div>
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everything to save you, Mme. la Viscomtesse, if you will but let me make</div>
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myself well understood."</div>
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"Oh, all, all! Do _thou_ understand, Joseph, I will do everything thou</div>
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"Then," he said, regarding me fixedly and halting at each word--"then it</div>
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is necessary that you consent to take Joseph Carpentier for your spouse."</div>
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"Oh, you see," replied Joseph, "my mother herself accuses me, and</div>
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you--you, madame, have no greater confidence in me. But that is nothing; I</div>
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must save you at any price. We will go from here together; we will descend</div>
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to the village; we will present ourselves at the mayoralty--"</div>
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"Let me speak, madame," he said. "We have not a moment to lose. Yes, we</div>
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will present ourselves at the mayoralty, and there I will espouse you, not</div>
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as Claudine Leroy, but as Alix de Morainville. Once my wife you have</div>
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nothing to fear. Having become one of the people, the people will protect</div>
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you. After the ceremony, madame, I will hand you the certificate of our</div>
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marriage, and you will tear it up the moment we shall have touched the</div>
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soil of England. Keep it precious till then; it is your only safeguard.</div>
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Nothing prevents me from going to England to find employment, and</div>
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necessarily my wife will go with me. Are you ready, madame?"</div>
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For my only response I put my hand in his; I was too deeply moved to</div>
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speak. Mother Catharine threw both her arms about her son's neck and</div>
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cried, "My noble child!" and we issued from the cottage guarded by</div>
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When the mayor heard the names and surnames of the wedding pair he turned</div>
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to Joseph, saying:</div>
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immense crowd. I trembled violently and pressed against Joseph. He, never</div>
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losing his presence of mind [sans perdre la carte], turned, saying:</div>
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"Allow me, my friends, to present to you my wife. The Viscomtesse de</div>
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Morainville no longer exists; hurrah for the Citoyenne Carpentier." And</div>
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the hurrahs and cries of triumph were enough to deafen one. Those who the</div>
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moment before were ready to tear me into pieces now wanted to carry me in</div>
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triumph. Arrived at the house, Joseph handed me our act of marriage.</div>
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"Keep it, madame," said he; "you can destroy it on your arrival in</div>
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At length one day, three weeks after our marriage, Joseph came to tell me</div>
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that he had secured passage on a vessel, and that we must sail together</div>
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under the name of Citoyen and Citoyenne Carpentier. I was truly sorry to</div>
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leave my adopted parents and foster-brother, yet at the bottom of my heart</div>
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But alas! when I arrived in London, at the address that she had given me,</div>
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I found there only her old friend the Chevalier d'Ivoy, who told me that</div>
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my mother was dead, and that what was left of her money, with her jewels</div>
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and chests, was deposited in the Bank of England. I was more dead than</div>
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alive; all these things paralyzed me. But my good Joseph took upon himself</div>
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to do everything for me. He went and drew what had been deposited in the</div>
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bank. Indeed of money there remained but twelve thousand francs; but</div>
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there were plate, jewels, pictures, and many vanities in the form of gowns</div>
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Joseph rented a little house in a suburb of London, engaged an old</div>
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Frenchwoman to attend me, and he, after all my husband, made himself my</div>
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servant, my gardener, my factotum. He ate in the kitchen with the maid,</div>
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waited upon me at table, and slept in the garret on a pallet.</div>
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I sprung towards him. "You go away? You go away?" I cried. "And I,</div>
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My latest Masterpiece and 3rd painting in the Aime family series, is titled "Gabriel Aime at Le Petit Versailles" 14 x 11, Available. This is a painting of Gabriel Aimé (1828-1854), youngest and the only son of Francois-Gabriel “Valcour” Aime the "Louis XIV of Louisiana." His mother was Josephine Roman Aime, sister of the governor of Louisiana. Gabriel Aime was born at "Le Petit Versailles", in St. James Parish on March 11, 1826. Gabriel Aime was educated at Jefferson College in Louisiana then he was sent abroad for further education in Europe. </div>
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During the 1840's and early 1850's Gabriel Aime tuck "Grand Tours" of Europe. The Grand Tour was the traditional trip of Europe undertaken by mainly upper class American young men of sufficient means and rank in the 19th century. On these tours Gabriel Aime would have trek through France and Italy in search of art, culture and the roots of Western civilization. With nearly unlimited funds, aristocratic connections and months (or years) to roam around. He would have commissioned copies of Old Master paintings like the one depicted in my painting of Salvator Mundi, a painting of Christ as Salvator Mundi (Latin for Savior of the World) original by Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1500.</div>
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Ironically the original showed up at a New Orleans auction house in the 1990's. On Easter Sunday, Apr. 4, 1847, Gabriel Aime received a Papal Blessing from the Pope at the Vatican. Gabriel Aime would perfect his language skills and mingled with the upper crust of the Continent. Gabriel Aime sent to Le Petit Versailles many crates of furniture and decorative arts he had purchased on the Grand Tour like the marble bust of Zeus on the New York classical card table. In 1854 Gabriel returned from a tour of Europe and arrived in New Orleans during a yellow fever epidemic. </div>
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After traveling to his family home Le Petit Versailles, he became sick and died soon after being diagnosed with the Yellow fever.The Times-Picayune notice of his death described him As "His tall, well developed, manly form swelling with youthful health and vigor, and his easy, polished, courteous manner lending additional grace to his pleasant words and lively, smiling countenance". Gabriel’s passing marked the end of his father Aime’s sugar experimentation and the start of his withdrawal from society. The following is recorded in Aime’s plantation journal: </div>
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“The diary of Mr. Valcour Aime closes on the 18th September, 1854, on account of his retirement from active life. His journal was continued by Mr. F. Fortier, his son-in-law. …” In 1856 Aime’s wife Josephine passed away, followed by his daughter Felicie in 1859. The loss of his son, wife, and daughter crushed Aime. In his diary, he writes, “Let him who wishes continue. My time is finished.” Aime secluded himself at home and converted the garden grotto into a makeshift chapel. There and at the local parish church he spent his time in prayer.</div>
<br />andrew1860http://www.blogger.com/profile/09302166776668727094noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517604320453054140.post-39872718699256073062018-02-01T20:16:00.000-08:002018-02-01T20:16:12.243-08:00 "Pierre de Pontalba surrounded by his ancestors at le château de Mont l'Évêque" by Andrew LaMar Hopkins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My latest Masterpiece titled "Pierre de Pontalba surrounded by his ancestors at le château de Mont l'Évêque" by Andrew LaMar Hopkins, 8 x 10. Not for sale. In the collection of the Artist! </div>
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<br />andrew1860http://www.blogger.com/profile/09302166776668727094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517604320453054140.post-89323016782511985412018-02-01T20:10:00.001-08:002018-02-01T20:10:31.560-08:00"Mary Ellen Pleasant visits Creole New Orleans" by Creole Folk Artist Andrew LaMar Hopkins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My latest Masterpiece is titled "Mary Ellen Pleasant visits Creole New Orleans" 11 x 14 Available. Mary Ellen Pleasant was a 19th-century African American entrepreneur widely known as Mistress Pleasant. Mistress Pleasant used her fortune to further the abolitionist movement. She worked on the Underground Railroad across many states and then helped bring it to California during the Gold Rush Era. She was a friend and financial supporter of John Brown, and was well known in abolitionist circles. After the Civil War, she took her battles to the courts in the 1860s and won several civil rights victories, one of which was cited and upheld in the 1980s and resulted in her being called “The Mother of Human Rights in California”.</div>
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Mary Ellen Pleasant lived for a short period in New Orleans during the early 1850's with her 2th husband John James ("J.J.") Pleasants who was a close relative of famouis New Orleans Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau’s husband. During this time it is believed that Mary Pleasant and Marie Leveau meet many times in Creole New Orleans. This painting shows Mary Pleasant in her rented New Orleans home in the 1830's Greek Revival style. She stands in front of a Greek Key style doorway in a lavishly furnished interior. To the left is a portrait of Voodoo Queen Marie Leveau and to the right a portrait of a black man by New Orleans Free man of color artist Julien Hudson. Under Marie Leveau's portrait is a 1840's mahogany card-table by J & J Meeks of New York city who had a retail showroon in New Orleans on Royal street. On the cardtable is a English Regency bronze and gilt Argand Lamp. To the right of Mary is a American Rococo Revival rosewood armchair.</div>
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Pleasant made contradictory claims about her earliest years, and her exact origin remains unclear. In one version of her memoirs dictated to her god-daughter Charlotte Downs, she claimed she was born a slave to a Voodoo priestess and John Hampden Pleasants, youngest son of Governor of Virginia James Pleasants. In any case, she showed up in Nantucket, Massachusetts circa 1827 as a 10- to 13-year-old bonded servant to a storekeeper, "Grandma" Hussey. She worked out her bondage, then became a family member and lifelong friend to Hussey's granddaughter Phoebe Hussey Gardner. The Husseys were deeply involved in the abolitionist movement, and Pleasant met many of the famous abolitionists. With the support of the Hussey/Gardners, she often passed as white. Pleasant married James Smith, a wealthy flour contractor and plantation owner who had freed his slaves and was also able to pass as white. She worked with Smith as a “slave stealer” on the Underground Railroad until his death about four years later. They transported slaves to northern states such as Ohio and even as far as Canada. Smith left instructions and money for her to continue the work after his death.</div>
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She began a partnership with John James ("J.J.") Pleasants circa 1848. Although no official records exist of their marriage, it was probably conducted by their friend Captain Gardner, Phoebe's husband, aboard his boat. They continued Smith’s work for a few more years, when increasing attention from slavers forced a move to New Orleans. J.J. Pleasants appears to have been a close relative of Marie Laveau’s husband, and there is some indication that Pleasant and Laveau met and consulted many times before Pleasant left New Orleans by boat for San Francisco in April 1852. J. J. had gone ahead and written back that the area seemed promising for the Underground Railroad.</div>
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When Mary Ellen arrived in San Francisco, she passed as white, using her first husband's name among the whites, and took jobs running exclusive men’s eating establishments, starting with the Case and Heiser. She met most of the founders of the city as she catered lavish meals, and she benefited from the tidbits of financial gossip and deals usually tossed around at the tables. She engaged a young clerk, Thomas Bell, at the Bank of California and they began to make money based on her tips and guidance. Thomas made money of his own, especially in quicksilver, and by 1875 they had amassed a 30 million dollar fortune (roughly 647 million dollars in 2017) between them. J.J., who had worked with Mary Ellen from the slave-stealing days to the civil rights court battles of the 1860s and '70s, died in 1877 of diabetes.</div>
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My latest masterpiece is titled “A visit to Creole New Orleans Cities of the Dead” 12 x 12 available. This painting depicts a real New Orleans Neoclassical tomb located in St. Louis Cemetery number 2. The cemetery was consecrated for burial in 1823. This interesting and unusual decorative tomb dates from the 1820's. The same time period for my painting, showing a widow and her child in mourning visiting her family tomb. Her recently departed husband is depicted above the tomb floating in clouds with angels. The tomb is a New Orleans above ground tomb made out of stuccoed brick with carved marble detail front. The ceramic wreaths hanging on both sides of the upper tomb is a immortelle. </div>
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An immortelle is an long-lasting flower arrangement placed on graves in cemeteries. They were originally made from natural dried flowers (which lasted longer than fresh flowers) or could be made from artificial materials such as china and painted plaster of paris or beads strung on wire arrangements. A cow lays in front of the tomb. It was hard to keep animals out of New Orleans cemetery's in the 19th century. New Orleans has always respected its dead, but this isn't the reason that our departed loved ones are interred above ground. Early settlers in the area struggled with different methods to bury the dead. Burial plots are shallow in New Orleans because the water table is very high. </div>
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Dig a few feet down, and the grave becomes soggy, filling with water. The casket will literally float. You just can't keep a good person down! The early settlers tried placing stones in and on top of coffins to weigh them down and keep them underground. Unfortunately, after a rainstorm, the rising water table would literally pop the airtight coffins out of the ground. To this day, unpredictable flooding still lifts the occasional coffin out of the ground in areas above the water table, generally considered safe from flooding. </div>
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Another method was to bore holes in the coffins. This method also proved to be unsuitable. Eventually, New Orleans' graves were kept above ground, following the French & Spanish custom of using vaults. The walls of some cemeteries here are made of economical vaults stacked on top of one another, while wealthier families could afford the larger, ornate tombs with crypts. Many family tombs look like miniature houses, complete with iron fences. The rows of tombs resemble streets--and this is why New Orleans burial plots quickly became known as cities of the dead.</div>
<br />andrew1860http://www.blogger.com/profile/09302166776668727094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517604320453054140.post-14362120078065191412018-02-01T20:03:00.001-08:002018-02-01T20:03:21.809-08:00"The Haitian Royal Family" by Andrew LaMar Hopkins <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My latest Masterpiece is a miniature titled "The Haitian Royal Family" 4'5 x 4'5 SOLD! This handpainted miniature was influenced by a recently discovered 1811 painting of Jacques-Victor, prince royal of Haiti, Anne-Athénaïre, and Françoise-Améthyste, The royal children of Henri Christophe, king of Haiti, and Marie-Louise Coidavid, by a unknown artist. The strong Haitian influence in New Orleans began with the arrival of the early Haitian settlers in the late 1700s who brought culture and diversity to the Creole city of New Orleans. </div>
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My latest masterpiece is titled "Tonton de Blanc the Marie Antoinette of Louisiana" 11 x 14, Available. At a Christmas party I met a ancestor of the fabulous Tonton de Blanc who told me her fascinating story of this amazing lady. I thought at that time I needed to paint her. Tonton de Blanc was the Queen of beauty and fashion of late 18th century Saint Martinville, Louisiana. In my painting Tonton is standing in her Saint Martinville home holding a basket of fruit. The room is furnished with Louisiana made Creole furniture, like the Mahogany Cabriole Leg Armoire to the right and the Louisiana mahogany one drawer side table to the left. On the Creole table is a 18th century cobalt and ormolu Sèvres porcelain vase of garden flowers. </div>
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Over the table is a oil portrait French Queen Marie Antoinette by court painter Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun. While in France Tonton de Blanc was in the Court of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. On top pf the armoire are wallpaper hat boxes. The French doors have a Toile de Jouy and lace drapery treatment. Tonton stands on a imported marble floors that includes yellow Royal Siena marble. Tonton de Blanc had one of the prettiest complexions in the world, all lily and rose, and what care she took of it ! She never went into the yard or the garden without a sunbonnet and a thick veil. </div>
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Yet for all that her jealous critics said she was good and sensible, and would forget everything, even her dressing to help anyone in trouble. Tonton de Blanc was Louisiana Aristocracy and the Queen bee of fashion of 18th century Saint Martin. She designed fashionable hats made by milliners using local materials like split palmetto finished off with silk flowers and ribbons. After Tonton debut her fashions in the saint Marin church ,The next Sunday you could see as many hats as the milliner had time to make, and before the end of the month all the women of Saint Martinville were wearing palmetto hats furnished at a high 18th century cost of $25.00 each! You can read more about Tonton de Blanc in "Strange True Stories of Louisiana" by George Washington Cable. </div>
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My latest miniature is titled "Toussaint L'Ouverture, the black Napoleon" Available PM me for price! Toussaint Louverture, Louverture also spelled L’Ouverture, original name (until c. 1793) François Dominique Toussaint, (born c. 1743, Bréda, near Cap-Français, Saint-Domingue [Haiti]—died April 7, 1803, Fort-de-Joux, France), leader of the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution. He emancipated the slaves and negotiated for the French colony on Hispaniola, Saint-Domingue (later Haiti), to be governed, briefly, by black former slaves as a French protectorate.Toussaint was the son of an educated slave; Legally freed in 1776, he married and had two sons. Toussaint was homely, short, and small framed. He was a fervent Roman Catholic, opposed to Vodou (Voodoo). He dressed simply and was abstemious and a vegetarian. Although he slept little, his energy and capacity for work were astonishing. As a leader he inspired awe and adulation.</div>
<br />andrew1860http://www.blogger.com/profile/09302166776668727094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517604320453054140.post-62475182756213415432017-09-11T12:25:00.002-07:002017-09-11T12:25:59.995-07:00Portrait of New Orleans famed Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Marie Laveau" 12 x 16, available by Andrew LaMar Hopkins. </div>
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This is the 3rd, large 12 x 16 painting of Marie Laveau in a on going series of paintings of the famed New Orleans voodoo queen, available, PM me for price. Marie Catherine Laveau (September 10, 1801– June 15, 1881) was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II, (1827 — c. 1862) also practiced rootwork, conjure, Native American and spiritualism as well as Louisiana or what is known today as New Orleans Voodoo. She and her mother had great influence over their multiracial following. "In 1874 as many as twelve thousand spectators, both black and white, swarmed to the shores of Lake Pontchartrain to catch a glimpse of Marie Laveau performing her legendary rites on St. John's Eve (June 23–24)."</div>
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Désirée Joséphine Duplantier and the birthday girl Becky! </div>
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Last week Désirée Joséphine Duplantier attended a wonderful birthday party of a good friend Becky. I have known Becky for over 11 years. I first met her and her husband Bob right before Hurricane Katrina as they were renting a lovely 1820's Creole house from another good friend Peter. We have kelp in touch all this time. After Hurricane Katrina when I moved to Baltimore, Bob and Becky would let me stay in the French Quarter weekend place. On one of these visits Becky made me one of my favorate Southern desserts. Blackberry cobbler! I still have the photo of it. I was out all day and when I returned a warm homemade cobbler was waiting for me on a marble nightstand. I will never forget this. The birthday party was fabulous. Upon arrival Désirée Joséphine Duplantier was handed a 1850's coin silver mint juip cup with a wonderful cocktail inside! It was nice to see old Friends and make new ones. A good time was had by all. </div>
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A surprise homemade blackberry cobbler left on my night stand. I friend actually made this for me.</div>
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Wonderful 19th century Old Paris porcelain cornflower pattern dinner plates! </div>
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The birthday girl. </div>
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The Birthday cake. </div>
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Désirée Joséphine Duplantier cake and 1850's coin silver mint julip cup </div>
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The famous Poppy Tooker, culinary activist cutting the cake. </div>
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Désirée Joséphine Duplantier and the birthday girl Becky! </div>
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It's time for me to come out of the Drag Queen closet on my blogg. For the past year and a half I have been doing Drag. My alter ego is the fabulous "Désirée Joséphine Duplantier". Désirée Joséphine Duplantier is a big mix of A Southern Belle, The "Golden Age" of Hollywood glamour of the 1930's,40's & 50s. The strong woman in my family and the French Aristocratic grande dame you might see sitting at a French cafe with her big hat and pearls on. Désirée Joséphine Duplantier started 2 Halloweens ago as fun and has blossomed into a big part of my life that I would like to share here on my blogg. Becoming Désirée Joséphine Duplantier has open up new doors for me as a person and artist. </div>
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As a small child growing up in Mobile, Alabama I use to look at American movie classics. And wanted to be one of the iconic old Hollywood glamour beauties I saw as a child in the movies of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Désirée Joséphine Duplantier has open wonderful doors for Andrew LaMar Hopkins. Désirée Joséphine Duplantier has been invited to many fashionable party's, a week at a château in France, and to walk the red carpet at the Festival de Cannes. Désirée Joséphine Duplantier has become such a big part of the life of Artist and Antiques dealer Andrew LaMar Hopkins that I could not imagine sharing her on my blog or the world. Photo's are from the past year and a half of in the life of Désirée Joséphine Duplantier! </div>
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1950's fashion Lundi Gras in the French Quarter @ a champagne and gumbo party </div>
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Mardi Gras day in the Bywater</div>
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Lundi Gras party with my French friend Nico in the French Quarter @ a champagne and gumbo party </div>
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Cute guys that came all the way from Pennsylvania just to see Désirée Joséphine Duplantier </div>
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Lundi Gras lunch in the French Quarter. </div>
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Guys with snakes on Bourbon street </div>
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Mardi Gras day in the French Quarter </div>
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Random cute English guy that came up to me on Bourbon street. </div>
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Drag Queen bingo in the Quarter </div>
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This is a modern day copy of one of the finest Neoclassical Louis XVI styled carved and painted cypress New Orleans made Creole mantel and overmantel circa 1795 removed from the Bosque House in the French Quarter. The original is in the New Orleans Museum of Art. </div>
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The Pitot House is a historic landmark in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</div>
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The Pitot House is an 18th-century Creole colonial country home located at 1440 Moss Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Pitot House is currently owned by the Louisiana Landmark Society, which uses the building as its headquarters. The house is situated on Bayou St. John and was moved several blocks from its original site in order to prevent its demolition.</div>
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The Pitot House was initially constructed in 1799 by Don Bartólome Bosque as a country retreat along Bayou St. John. It is speculated that Bosque's house was a raised cottage on brick pillars. Bosque was a Spanish colonial official, whose daughter Suzette married Louisiana Governor William C.C. Claiborne.</div>
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It is also believed that during the ownership of Madame Rillieux (1805–1810), Edgar Degas' great-grandmother, the ground floor was enclosed with masonry walls of soft brick. Rillieux was also responsible for adding the southern gallery and several outbuildings, which are no longer extant.</div>
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The house is named for James Pitot, the fourth owner of the house who resided there from 1810 to 1819. Pitot is considered to be the first "American" mayor of New Orleans (1804–1805); for although he was a native of France, he became a naturalized American citizen before arriving in New Orleans in 1796. Inside are American and Louisiana antiques from the early 19th century, but the antiques are not original to the home. A portrait of Sophie Gabrielle, James Pitot's daughter, is the only artifact owned by any past resident of the house.</div>
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Other notable owners of the house include Felix Ducayet and Mother Cabrini, America's first named saint.</div>
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The home is within yards of the site of the "bayou bridge" which Governor Claiborne ordered the military "to permit no Negroes to pass or repass the same" during the events known as the 1811 German Coast Uprising. This event, said by some historians to be the largest slave uprising on American soil (a theory not recognized by all) caused white families living upriver in January 1811 to stream into New Orleans along Metairie Road. That road was the "highland" road which crossed the bridge at Bayou St. John, providing access to the traditional "back of town" entrance along Bayou Road into the city.</div>
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The house was saved from destruction by the Louisiana Landmarks Society in 1964 and restored to its original splendor, showing the double-pitched hipped roof, and the plaster-covered brick-between-post (briquette-entre-poteaux) construction. The wooden posts act as structural support, the brick offers thermal insulation, and the plaster protects this medley from dampness and rot.</div>
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The style of the Pitot House is ensuite—with no hallways and an outdoor stairway. The house was designed with hot summers and insects in mind. The doors were positioned across from each other to keep cool air moving. The extended galleries on both the bottom and top levels of the house keep the sun off the walls and offer outdoor breezeways.</div>
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The Pitot House was also designed to withstand floods and was able to survive the floods of Hurricane Katrina due to brick floors on the bottom level of the house which would have originally been caulked with a dry mix of sand and lime, allowing flood waters to drain through. The gallery, back loggia, and sleeping porch were used for outdoor entertaining, dining, and sleeping; they were fitted with shutters to provide relief from the intense Louisiana sun.</div>
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The garden at the Pitot House grows plants traditional to the time period when the Pitot House was built. These plants include indigenous flowers, citrus trees, perennials, bulbs, antique roses, camellias, herbs, and vegetables. The garden is a traditional parterre garden, designed to be viewed from the above gallery, with the boxwood hedges recently restored.</div>
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A native plants garden showcases Louisiana wildflowers and shrubs along the perimeter of the parterre. Next to the house is a 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) yard, where parties and events are held.</div>
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The garden is a traditional parterre garden, designed to be viewed from the above gallery, with the boxwood hedges recently restored.</div>
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The house was designed with hot summers and insects in mind. The doors were positioned across from each other to keep cool air moving. </div>
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The extended galleries on both the bottom and top levels of the house keep the sun off the walls and offer outdoor breezeways.</div>
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Bayou St. John (French: Bayou Saint-Jean) is a bayou within the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.</div>
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The grand Bayou St. John in 1728.</div>
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The Bayou as a natural feature drained the swampy land of a good portion of what was to become New Orleans, into Lake Pontchartrain. In its natural state, it extended much farther than today; 18th- and early 19th-century maps show it had tributaries or branches (at least seasonally) reaching into what are now the Broadmoor neighborhood, the New Orleans Central Business District just back from St. Charles Avenue above Lee Circle, the Carrollton neighborhood, the Treme neighborhood, and a branch connecting to Bayou Gentilly.</div>
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Early 19th century Federal room at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens </div>
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The last weekend of September I was invited to Texas for a long weekend by a friend to show my Folk artwork at the Smither Park Grand Opening Celebration. Houston's first folk art-inspired green space, dedicated to Stephanie and John Smither, avid and celebrated collectors of visionary and self-taught art. Smither Park took six years and nearly 300 artists to complete, and is a public mosaic masterpiece. We had a wonderful time! This was the first time I step foot on Texas soil other then the airport going to France! </div>
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At the end of the weekend it was time to get some museums in and some antiquing! Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens was 1st on my list as I have known about this place since I was a child interested in Early American antiques. The collection at Bayou Bend presently consists of approximately 4,700 objects that reflect historic and stylistic periods from 1620 to 1870 installed in some 28 period room settings that showcase American decorative arts from 1620 through 1870. Miss Hogg began assembling this important collection of American decorative arts in 1920. To provide suitable settings for these extraordinary antiques, Staub designed simple but stately interiors in the style of colonial American rooms.</div>
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In 1920, while sitting for a portrait by artist Wayman Adams, Miss Hogg admired a simple armchair belonging to the artist that was made in colonial America and later obtained a similar Queen Anne chair for herself. Almost half a century later, Miss Hogg acquired the very same chair that she had first seen in Adams' studio. "From the time I acquired my first Queen Anne armchair in 1920, I had an unaccountable compulsion to make an American collection for some Texas museum." The collection also contains notable objects from outside America, including English ceramics used in Colonial America.</div>
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Buffalo Bayou is a slow-moving river which flows through Houston in Harris County, Texas. Formed some 18,000 years ago, it has its source in the prairie surrounding Katy, Fort Bend County, and flows approximately 53 miles (85 km) east through the Houston Ship Channel into Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to drainage water impounded and released by the Addicks and Barker reservoirs, the bayou is fed by natural springs, surface runoff, and several significant tributary bayous, including White Oak Bayou, Greens Bayou, and Brays Bayou.</div>
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As the principal river of Greater Houston, the Buffalo Bayou watershed is heavily urbanized. Its 102-square-mile (260 km2) direct drainage area contains a population of over 440,000. Including tributaries, the bayou has a watershed area of approximately 500 square miles (1,300 km2).</div>
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Miss Hogg created a series of gardens that were intended as outdoor rooms for living and entertaining. In 1957, Miss Hogg donated her home and her collection to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Bayou Bend opened to the public in 1966.</div>
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Ima Hogg (July 10, 1882 – August 19, 1975), known as "The First Lady of Texas", was an American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts, and one of the most respected women in Texas during the 20th century. Hogg was an avid art collector, and owned works by Picasso, Klee, and Matisse, among others. Hogg donated hundreds of pieces of artwork to Houston's Museum of Fine Arts and served on a committee to plan the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. An enthusiastic collector of early American antiques, she also served on a committee tasked with locating historical furniture for the White House. She restored and refurbished several properties, including the Varner plantation and Bayou Bend, which she later donated to Texas arts and historical institutions who maintain the facilities and their collections today. Hogg received numerous awards and honors, including the Louise E. du Pont Crowninshield Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Santa Rita Award from the University of Texas System, and an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Southwestern University.</div>
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Hogg was the daughter of Sarah Ann "Sallie" Stinson and James Stephen "Big Jim" Hogg, later attorney general and governor of the state. Ima Hogg's first name was taken from The Fate of Marvin, an epic poem written by her uncle Thomas Hogg. She endeavored to downplay her unusual name by signing her first name illegibly and having her stationery printed with "I. Hogg" or "Miss Hogg". Although it was rumored that Hogg had a sister named "Ura Hogg", she had only brothers. Hogg's father left public office in 1895, and soon after, her mother was diagnosed with tuberculosis. When Sarah died later that year, Jim Hogg's widowed elder sister moved to Austin to care for the Hogg children. Between 1899 and 1901, Hogg attended the University of Texas at Austin; she then moved to New York City to study piano and music theory for two years. After her father's death in 1906, she traveled to Europe and spent two years studying music under Xaver Scharwenka in Vienna. When she returned to Texas, she established and managed the Houston Symphony Orchestra and served as president of the Symphony Society.</div>
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The discovery of oil on her family's cotton plantation made Hogg very wealthy, and she used this income to benefit the people of Texas. In 1929, she founded the Houston Child Guidance Center, which provides counseling for children with mental health problems or diagnoses and their families. Through her brother's will, she established the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at the University of Texas at Austin in 1940. Hogg successfully ran for a seat on the Houston School Board in 1943, where she worked to remove gender and race as criteria for determining pay and established art education programs for black students. Hogg never married, and died in 1975. The Ima Hogg Foundation was the major beneficiary of her will, and carries on her philanthropic work today. Several annual awards have been established in her name, honoring her efforts to preserve cultural heritage in Texas.</div>
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The mansion, designed by architect John F. Staub, was built between 1927 and 1928 for Ima Hogg and her brothers, William C. and Michael Hogg. Covered in towering trees and thick undergrowth, the home site was, in Miss Hogg's words, "nothing but a dense thicket". The home was one of the first to be located in the River Oaks neighborhood developed by the Hogg brothers. During construction, Ima Hogg insisted that as many trees as possible be kept. Only one tree was sacrificed to make room for the house, and the gardens were created around the existing trees. Ima Hogg gave the home its name, over the objection of her brother Will, who said the name was "too muddy and 'muskeetery' and malarial". Ima responded that "not everyone can have a bayou".</div>
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The heavily wooded 14 acres (5.7 ha) along Buffalo Bayou include eight formal gardens. Three of the gardens are named for a statue of a goddess or muse displayed in the garden, Clio, Diana and Euturpe. The other gardens are named White, East, Butterfly and Carla. In September 2008, the winds of Hurricane Ike caused extensive damage to the gardens. Although none of the statues were damaged, between 65 and 70% of the pine trees on the grounds had fallen, as had an American holly tree, which at 55 feet (17 m) was the tallest of its kind in Harris County, Texas. Bart Brechter, the Curator of Gardens at the museum, estimated that it would take 5 months to clear the debris and could take years to bring the gardens to their former state.</div>
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Still Life with Vegetables</div>
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American, active 1829–1835</div>
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Looking Glass</div>
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Side Chair</div>
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Portrait of William Holmes (1762–c. 1818/20)</div>
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The heavily wooded 14 acres (5.7 ha) along Buffalo Bayou include eight formal gardens. Three of the gardens are named for a statue of a goddess or muse displayed in the garden, Clio, Diana and Euturpe. The other gardens are named White, East, Butterfly and Carla. In September 2008, the winds of Hurricane Ike caused extensive damage to the gardens. Although none of the statues were damaged, between 65 and 70% of the pine trees on the grounds had fallen, as had an American holly tree, which at 55 feet (17 m) was the tallest of its kind in Harris County, Texas. Bart Brechter, the Curator of Gardens at the museum, estimated that it would take 5 months to clear the debris and could take years to bring the gardens to their former state.</div>
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The heavily wooded 14 acres (5.7 ha) along Buffalo Bayou include eight formal gardens. Three of the gardens are named for a statue of a goddess or muse displayed in the garden, Clio, Diana and Euturpe. The other gardens are named White, East, Butterfly and Carla. In September 2008, the winds of Hurricane Ike caused extensive damage to the gardens. Although none of the statues were damaged, between 65 and 70% of the pine trees on the grounds had fallen, as had an American holly tree, which at 55 feet (17 m) was the tallest of its kind in Harris County, Texas. Bart Brechter, the Curator of Gardens at the museum, estimated that it would take 5 months to clear the debris and could take years to bring the gardens to their former state.</div>
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Buffalo Bayou is a slow-moving river which flows through Houston in Harris County, Texas. Formed some 18,000 years ago, it has its source in the prairie surrounding Katy, Fort Bend County, and flows approximately 53 miles (85 km) east through the Houston Ship Channel into Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to drainage water impounded and released by the Addicks and Barker reservoirs, the bayou is fed by natural springs, surface runoff, and several significant tributary bayous, including White Oak Bayou, Greens Bayou, and Brays Bayou.</div>
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As the principal river of Greater Houston, the Buffalo Bayou watershed is heavily urbanized. Its 102-square-mile (260 km2) direct drainage area contains a population of over 440,000. Including tributaries, the bayou has a watershed area of approximately 500 square miles (1,300 km2).</div>
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Buffalo Bayou is a slow-moving river which flows through Houston in Harris County, Texas. Formed some 18,000 years ago, it has its source in the prairie surrounding Katy, Fort Bend County, and flows approximately 53 miles (85 km) east through the Houston Ship Channel into Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to drainage water impounded and released by the Addicks and Barker reservoirs, the bayou is fed by natural springs, surface runoff, and several significant tributary bayous, including White Oak Bayou, Greens Bayou, and Brays Bayou.</div>
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As the principal river of Greater Houston, the Buffalo Bayou watershed is heavily urbanized. Its 102-square-mile (260 km2) direct drainage area contains a population of over 440,000. Including tributaries, the bayou has a watershed area of approximately 500 square miles (1,300 km2).</div>
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Mint Juleps @ le château de Hopkins. As I say farewell to my French friend David. I made him a Mint Julep a traditional Southern favorite.</div>
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Four-ingredient Classic Mint Juleps are a traditional Southern favorite.</div>
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Classic Mint Julep</div>
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Kentucky Derby is celebrated the first Saturday in May with visitors from around the world gathering at the race track and all over Louisville. As "My Old Kentucky Home" plays before the race, julep cups are raised high, bringing tears to many eyes. To Kentuckians, a mint julep is more than a drink; it's a cup of emotion, full of tradition.</div>
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The classic version is served in silver julep cups. These are filled to the rim with a refreshing concoction of the finest bourbon, simple syrup, fresh mint, and crushed ice. This drink is best made individually "to taste" using only the freshest ingredients. While Kentucky Colonel mint is commonly used, other varieties work well too. The ingredients remain constant, but opinions are as varied as the colors of jockeys' silks as to the proper way to make them. Many crush the mint and sugar together (referred to as muddling), while others insist that the mint should be smelled not tasted.</div>
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Always pre-chill julep cups or glass tumblers before filling with crushed ice. This prevents the ice from melting too quickly. "Wrap ice cubes in a thick towel or cloth bag, and hammer away until you have small chunks,".</div>
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Before tasting, insert a cocktail straw or coffee stirrer near the mint sprig. Inhale a deep breath, and slowly sip until someone says, "May I fix you another mint julep?"</div>
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My latest Masterpiece is tilted "Blackberry Woman". It depicts A Creole street vendor walking down the flagstone sidewalk in front of a New Orleans Greek Revival house next to a French Olive jar planted with Spanish daggers and a seated dog. Over her head on a Neoclassical cast iron balcony a lady reads a book next to a potted orange tree. Women commonly sold goods on the streets of New Orleans throughout the city's colonial and antebellum history. Forming a significant presence among the city‘s market places, they sold various food items which included coffee, calas, and pralines. Perhaps the most popular of the Creole of color street vendors was the praline women. They attracted the attention of visitors as well as residents.</div>
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Antoine's Restaurant in the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter is far more than just a restaurant. It's a time capsule filled with French-Creole influence and a side of oysters Rockefeller. </div>
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At the end of last Summer I had a memorable outing at world famous Antoine's Restaurant with my good friend Lisa. Having been established in 1840 by Antoine Alciatore of Bordeaux France where I just came back from spending almost two weeks. Antoine's is a Louisiana Creole cuisine restaurant located at 713 rue St. Louis (St. Louis Street) in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. It has the distinction of being the oldest family run restaurant in the United States. The setting is simply elegant and Old World. Antoines has a catacomb of multiple historic rooms, each with its own unique flare and artifacts to ooh and ahh at. The atmosphere and service is great for a fancy get together with friends, family, and coworkers. The food is always top notch, their chef must get compliments all the time because yeah... the food will definitely leave your palate happy. The service is great too, as it takes years to become a waiter there! They are in the know about the food as well as the history behind (and hanging on) the walls of Antoine's Restaurant. </div>
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This New Orleans institution, it is notable for being the "inventor" of several famous dishes, such as Oysters Rockefeller, Pompano en Papillote, Eggs Sardou and Pigeonneaux Paradis. Antoine's Cookbook, compiled by Roy F. Guste (the fifth-generation proprietor) features hundreds of recipes from the Antoine's tradition. The restaurant is also known for its VIP patrons (including several U.S. presidents and Pope John Paul II).</div>
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Oysters Bienville: This succulent dish named in his honor was originally created at Antoine's by Chef Auguste Michel. </div>
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Antoine's features a 25,000 bottle capacity wine storage and 14 dining rooms of varying sizes and themes, with several featuring Mardi Gras krewe memorabilia. The lengthy menu (originally only in French, now in French and English) features classic French-Creole dishes. By tradition, Antoine's is closed to the general public on Thanksgiving, Christmas and Mardi Gras. The restaurant can be reserved for private parties on these "Closed Days." Advance reservations are required for dining during Mardi Gras and on weekends. The executive chef as of November 2012 is Michael Regua.</div>
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Chicken breast sautéed with fresh mushrooms, butter and garlic.</div>
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Born in France in 1822, Antoine Alciatore came to the New World at the age of 18 aiming to establish a business of his own, and after arriving in New Orleans in 1840, he opened a pension – a boarding house and restaurant in the French Quarter – that was simply to be known as “Antoine’s.”</div>
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In ill health by 1874, Alciatore returned to France, where he died and was buried. Under Antoine’s wife’s tutelage, their son Jules served as an apprentice, running the restaurant for six years before traveling to France, where he served in the great kitchens of Paris, Strasbourg and Marseilles. He returned to New Orleans and became chef of the famous Pickwick Club in 1887, before his mother summoned him to head the House of Antoine.</div>
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His genius was in the kitchen, where he invented Oysters Rockefeller, so named after Standard Oil Founder John D. Rockefeller, for the richness of the sauce. While its namesake reportedly despised its title, Oysters Rockefeller is widely considered one of the greatest culinary creations of all time, with the recipe remaining a closely guarded secret.</div>
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Jules was succeeded by one of his three children, Roy, who followed in his father’s footsteps and led the restaurant for almost 40 years through some of the country’s most difficult times, including Prohibition and World War II, until his death in 1972. His legacy includes the invention of famous dishes such as Oysters Foch and Eggs Sardou, as well as the creation of several of its famous dining rooms and their white tablecloth décor. Roy’s vision and meticulous management of the restaurant solidified the international culinary stature of Antoine’s and firmly established it as a dining destination unto itself.</div>
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The long and narrow Wine Cellar, which measures 165-feet long and 7-feet wide, holds approximately 25,000 bottles when fully stocked. It is a legendary space and can be viewed from a small window on Royal Street.</div>
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The 1840 Room, fashioned in the style of the period, is a charming salon for dining. Photographs of successive generations of the Alciatore family also dot the room and add to the richness of the warm, red interior. It replicates a fashionable dining room from that time and is also a museum of sorts, housing a Parisian cookbook circa 1659, and the restaurant's silver duck press among other treasures.</div>
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The 1840 Room, fashioned in the style of the period, is a charming salon for dining. Photographs of successive generations of the Alciatore family also dot the room and add to the richness of the warm, red interior. It replicates a fashionable dining room from that time and is also a museum of sorts, housing a Parisian cookbook circa 1659, and the restaurant's silver duck press among other treasures.</div>
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The 1840 Room replicates a fashionable dining room from the era of the restaurant’s founding and is also a museum of sorts, housing a Parisian cookbook circa 1659, and the restaurant’s antique silver duck press, among other treasures. Portraits of successive generations of the Alciatore family also dot the room and add to the richness of the warm, red interior.</div>
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Antoine’s legacy is a storied one, and countless world leaders and celebrities have dined there. Lining the walls are photographs of the rich and famous who have feasted amid the splendor including Franklin Roosevelt, Pope John Paul II, the Rolling Stones, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, Kate Hudson, Jimmy Buffett, Whoopi Goldberg, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby to name only a few.</div>
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My French friend David from Brittany has stayed with me for a week @ le château de Hopkins. To thank me for his wonderful stay he made for me my favorate French dessert La tarte au citron meringuée! The last time I had this amazing French dessert homemade for me was last October by my good friend The Baroness de Pontalba at her lovely home Le château de Mont-l'Évêque! I had mostly eaten this fabulous dessert from La pâtisserie all over France! But you are very lucky when you can have it homemade. I made sure I watched David make it so I can make it myself one day. Unexpectedly David cooked a whole French dinner to go with La tarte au citron meringuée! David needs to move into le château de Hopkins so he can cook his fabulous meals every night! It was absolutely delicious! I felt like I was transported to France eating it! I have so many good memories around eating tarte au citron meringuée! </div>
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David cooking in the kitchen of le château de Hopkins.</div>
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On display at the table of le château de Hopkins.</div>
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Hand painted Old Paris porcelain dessert plates and Olive pattern coin silver ready for La tarte au citron meringuée. </div>
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French dinner made for me by David, served on a 18th century Louis XVI Sèvres "bleu céleste" soft paste porcelain plate.</div>
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