[346] Maria Felicita Garcia, Dame Malibran, later Dame de Bériot (1808-1836), one of the most famous opera-singers of the time, was the daughter of Manuel del Popolo Vicente Garcia, the Spanish singer and composer. She made her first appearance in opera in London, on the 7th of June 1825, when she took the place of Madame Pasta, who was ill. She made a great sensation and was at once engaged for the rest of the season. In 1826, she went to New York and there, in the middle of a successful season, married Malibran, the French banker, who soon became bankrupt. She left him in 1827, returned to France and appeared for the first time in Paris, on the 12th of January 1828, in _Sémiramide._ Her success was prodigious and she continued to rouse unparalleled enthusiasm in all the great cities of Europe. On the 30th of March 1836, Madame Malibran married Charles Auguste de Bériot, the Belgian violinist; six months later, on the 23rd of September, she died, in Manchester, from the effects of a fall from her horse, in London, a few days earlier.--T. [347] At this time (1833), George Sand had published only _Indiana_ (September 1832) and _Valentine_ (November 1832). _Lélia_ appeared in September 1833, the _Secrétaire intime_ and _Jacques_ in 1834.--T. [348] In an article on Étienne Pivert de Sénancour's _Obermann_, in the _Revue des Deux-Mondes_ of 15 June 1833.--B. [349] October 1834.--B. [350] _Rêveries du promeneur solitaire_, published in 1782, four years after Rousseau's death.--T. [351] _Études de la nature_(1784).--T. [352] _Æn._, IV. 625.--T. [353] LUCIAN: _Dialogues of the Courtezans_, VII.--_Author's Note._ [354] _Cf._ MILTON, _Paradise Lost_, II., 752-760. "All on a sudden miserable pain Surprised thee; dim thine eyes, and dizzy swum In darkness, while thy head flames thick and fast Threw forth; till on the left side opening wide, Likest to thee in shape and countenance bright, Then shining heavenly fair, a goddess arm'd Out of thy head I sprung: amazement seized All the host of heaven; back they recoil'd afraid At first, and cal I'd me Sin."--T. [355] _Sic_, in all the editions.--T. [356] Phila (_fl._ 370 B.C.), a celebrated Athenian courtezan and mistress to Hyperides the Attic orator.--T. [357] Lais (_d. circa_ 340 B.C.), a noted Corinthian courtezan, said to have been advised to adopt her profession by Apelles. Demosthenes was one of her many lovers; Diogenes another. She was assassinated in Thessaly by a number of women jealous of their husbands' affections.--T. [358] Gnathæna, a Greek poetess and courtezan, of an uncertain period. Some of her witty sayings are recorded by Athenæus.--T. [359] Phryne (_fl. circa_ 328 B.C.), a celebrated Athenian hetaira, mistress to Praxiteles, one of whose many statues of her is known as the _Cnidian Aphrodite_, while Apelles took her for his model for the _Aphrodite Anadyomene._--T.