The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 — John Shaqi
The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852Various
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The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852
Various
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_entré_ to all the theatres, private gambling-houses, &c.,
&c. But beware of such seductions."
EMILIE DE COIGNY.
WRITTEN FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
BY RICHARD B. KIMBALL.
[Illustration: EMILIE DE COIGNY AND THE STUDENTS.]
A morning at _Là Morgue_ is hardly as agreeable as a day at the Louvre,
yet it is not without a certain fascination. Let but the influence once
fasten on you, and it will be very hard to shake it off. At one period I
confess it was to me almost irresistible, and I shudder sometimes when I
recollect how punctually every morning at the same hour I took my place
on one side of that fearful room--not for the purpose of inspecting the
bodies of the suicides (I rarely turned to look at them), but to regard
the countenances of the anxious ones who came to realize the worst, or
to take hope till the morrow. Literally there are no spectators in that
dismal solitude--if we except an occasional visit from the foreign
sight-hunter, who comes in charge of a valet, and passes in and out and
away to the "next place." In London or in New-York, an establishment so
public would be thronged with persons eager to gratify a prurient
curiosity. Not so in Paris. The French possess a sensibility so
refined--it may be called a species of delicacy--that they cannot enjoy
such a spectacle, can scarcely endure it: and if the tourist will bring
the subject to mind, he will recollect that while his guide pointed out
the entrance, he himself declined going into the apartment.
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