of fairy tales, she is also well known by her Travels in Spain.

in the neighbourhood of this retreat, in the shocking and unheard of manner thus related by his biographer:-" Comme il s' en retournoit seul a Mad. Murat daughter of the Marquis de CasSaint-Firmin, le 23, Novembre 1763, par la forêt telnau, and wife of the Count de Murat, was born de Chantilly, il fut frappé d'une apoplexie subite, in 1670. She is said to have been of a very et demeura sur la place. Des paysans qui survin- lively and ardent disposition, and devoted to rent par hazard, ayant apperçu son corps étendu pleasure, which is indeed acknowledged in the au pied d'un arbre, le portèrent au curê du species of confession which she has made in the village le plus prochain. Le Curé le fit deposer Memoires de sa Vie, a work which is believed to dans song église, en attendant la justice, qui fut appellée, comme c'est l' usage lorsqu' un cadavre a eté trouvé. Elle se rassembla avec precipitation, et fit proceder sur le champ par le Chirurgien, a l'ouverture. Un cri du Malheureux, qui n' etoit pas mort, fit juger la verité a celui dirigeoit l' instrument, et glaça d' effroi les assistans. Le chirurgeon s' arreta; il etoit trop tard, le coup porté etoit mortel. L'Abbé Prevot ne r'ouvrit les yeux que pour voir l'appareil cruel qui l' environnoit, et de quelle maniere horrible on lui arrachoit la vie."

No. XXXIII.—p. 381.

have been written by herself. She had the misfortune to displease Mad. de Maintenon, who suspected her of having written a libel, in which the private court of Lewis XIV., towards the close of the 17th century, was grossly insulted, and she was, in consequence, banished to a distance from the capital. She was recalled, however, in 1715, by the regent, Duke of Orleans, at the intercession of Mad. de Parabere, her intimate friend. She did not, however, long enjoy the pleasure of again partaking in the amusements of the capital, as she died at Paris in the year after her recall.

Mademoiselle de la Force was grand-daughter of Jacques de Caumont, subsequently Duc de la Force, whose escape from the massacre of St Bartholomew has been celebrated in the Henriade,

MAD. D'AULNOY, MURAT, & LA FORCE, and who afterwards greatly signalized himself by

were the three principal writers of fairy tales in France. The first of these ladies was the daughter of M. Le Jumel de Barneville, a gentleman of one of the first families of Normandy, and was married to Francis, Count D'Aulnoy. To the advantages of noble birth and alliance, she united those of beauty and wit-she was distinguished for the elegance of her manners, and talents for conversation. Besides her celebrity as the author

his exploits, during the reigns of Henry IV. and Lewis XIII. His grand-daughter was united, in 1687, to Charles de Brion, but the marriage was declared null ten days after its celebration. She survived this short union nearly forty years, during which she distinguished herself by various compositions, besides her Contes de Fées. Of these productions, her poetical epistle to Mad. de Maintenon, and her Chateau en Espagne, have been chiefly celebrated.

INDEX.

Arthur, romances relating to, and to the fabulous Contes Devots, 287.

Fontaine, his imitations of Boccaccio, 214, 215, Lucian, his true history, 389.

Gueulette, his imitations of the Oriental Tales, Moraes Francesco, v. Palmerin of England.

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