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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The International Weekly Miscellany, Vol. 1, No. 7, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The International Weekly Miscellany, Vol. 1, No. 7 Of Literature, Art, and Science, August 12, 1850 Author: Various Release Date: October 11, 2004 [EBook #13711] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY *** Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, William Flis, the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team and Cornell University INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MISCELLANY Of Literature, Art, and Science. * * * * * Vol. I. NEW YORK, AUGUST 12, 1850. No. 7. * * * * * WOMEN AND LITERATURE IN FRANCE. From a sprightly letter from Paris to the _Cologne Gazette_, we translate for _The International_ the following account of the position of women in the French Republic, together with the accompanying gossip concerning sundry ladies whose names have long been quite prominently before the public: "It is curious that the idea of the emancipation of women should have originated in France, for there is no country in Europe where the sex have so little reason to complain of their position as in this, especially at Paris. Leaving out of view a certain paragraph of the _Code Civile_--and that is nothing but a sentence in a law-book--and looking closely into the features of women's life, we see that they are not only queens who reign, but also ministers who govern. "In France women are engaged in a large proportion of civil employments, and may without hesitation devote themselves to art and science. It is indeed astonishing to behold the interest with which the beautiful sex here enter upon all branches of art and knowledge. "The ateliers of the painters number quite as many female as male students, and there are apparently more women than men who copy the pictures in the Louvre. Nothing is more pleasing than to see these gentle creatures, with their easels, sitting before a colossal Rubens or a Madonna of Raphael. No difficulty alarms them, and prudery is not allowed to give a voice in their choice of subjects.
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