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il was copied after a Marquise de Grenoble.--Remark the difference between Lovelace and Valmont, one being stimulated by pride and the other by vanity.] [Footnote 2307: The growth of sensibility is indicated by the following dates: Rousseau, "Sur l'influence des lettres et des arts," 1749; "Sur l'inegalite," 1753; "Nouvelle Heloise," 1759. Greuze, "Le Pere de Famille lisant la Bible," 1755; "L'Accordee de Village," 1761. Diderot, "Le fils natural," 1757; "Le Pere de Famille," 1758.] [Footnote 2308: Mme. de Genlis, "Memoires," chap. XVII.--George Sand, I. 72. The young Mme. de Francueil, on seeing Rousseau for the first time, burst into tears.] [Footnote 2309: This point has been brought out with as much skill as accuracy by Messieurs de Goncourt in "L'Art au dix-huitieme siecle," I. 433-438.] [Footnote 2310: The number for August, 1792, contains "Les Rivaux d'eux-memes."--About the same time other pieces are inserted in the "Mercure," such as "The federal union of Hymen and Cupid," "Les Jaloux," "A Pastoral Romance," "Ode Anacreontique a Mlle. S. D. . . . "etc.] [Footnote 2311: Mme. de Genlis, "Adele et Theodore," I. 312.--De Goncourt, "La Femme an dixhuitieme siecle," 318.--Mme. d'Oberkirk, I. 56.--Description of the puff au sentiment of the Duchesse de Chartres (de Goncourt, 311): "In the background is a woman seated in a chair and holding an infant, which represents the Duc de Valois and his nurse. On the right is a parrot pecking at a cherry, and on the left a little Negro, the duchess's two pets: the whole is intermingled with locks of hair of all the relations of Mme. de Chartres, the hair of her husband, father and father-in-law."] [Footnote 2312: Mme. de Genlis, "Les Dangers du Monde." I, scene VII; II, scene IV;--"Adele et Theodore," I. 312;--"Souvenirs de Felicie," 199;--Bachaumont, IV, 320.] [Footnote 2313: Mme. de la Rochejacquelein, "Memoires."] [Footnote 2314: Mme. de Genlis, "Memoires," chap. XX.--De Lauzun, 270.] [Footnote 2315: Mme. d'Oberkirk, II. 35 (1783-1784). Mme. Campan, III. 371.--Mercier, "Tableau de Paris," passim.] [Footnote 2316: "Correspondance" by Metra, XVII. 55, (1784).--Mme. d'Oberkirk, II. 234.--"Marie Antoinette," by d'Arneth and Geffroy, II. 63, 29.] [Footnote 2317: "Le Gouvernement de Normandie," by Hippeau, IV. 387 (Letters of June 4, 1789, by an eye-witness).] [Footnote 2318: Florian, "Ruth".] [Footnote 2319: Hippeau, IV. 86 (June 23, 1773), on the rep
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