Ardor and Application.--The Englishman’s Prophecy.--Rosa vowed to Art.--Devoted to the Study of Animals.--Excursions in the Country in search of Models.--Visits the _Abattoirs_.--Study of various Types.--Visits the Museums and Stables.--Resorts to the horse and cattle Fairs in male Attire.--Curious Adventures.--Anatomical Studies.--Advantages of her Excursions.--Her Father her only Teacher.--The Family of Artists.--Rosa’s pet Birds and Sheep.--Her first Appearance.--Rising Reputation.--Takes the gold Medal.--Proclaimed the new Laureat.--Death of her Father.--Rosa Directress of the School of Design.--Her Sister a Professor.--“The Horse-market.”--Rosa’s Paintings.--Bestows her Fortune on others.--Her Farm.--Drawings presented to Charities.--Demand for her Paintings.--Her Right to the Cross of the Legion of Honor.--The Emperor’s Refusal to grant it to a Woman.--Description of her Residence and her Studio.--Rosa found asleep.--Her personal Appearance.--Dress.--Her Character.--Her Industry.--Mademoiselle Micas.--Mountain Rambles.--Rosa’s Visit to Scotland.--Her Life in the Mountains.--At the Spanish Posada.--Threatened Starvation.--Cooking Frogs.--The Muleteers.--Rosa’s Scotch Terrier.--Her Resolution never to marry. FELICIE DE FAUVEAU. Felicie was born in Tuscany, but was taken, when an infant, to Paris, where her education commenced. Her parents were persons of much intelligence and culture. Her mother had great taste for music and painting, and it was from her that her daughter’s talents received their first direction and encouragement. The family favored the aristocrats and Legitimists, and endured much in the cause of the Bourbons. Madame de Fauveau’s eyes had opened on the terrors of the guillotine, and she was as proud of those memories of exile, proscription, and the scaffold as most persons are of honor and titles. Her chivalrous loyalty looked on them as dignities, and the privilege of suffering for the family to which she was devoted was cheaply earned in her eyes by the ruin and exile of her own. The daughter shared in the mother’s chivalrous sentiments, and her cherished ideas of monarchy and Romanism became perceptible in her conversation and works, while her self-sacrificing spirit of loyalty remained the same amid many vicissitudes. Owing to pecuniary losses, her parents were compelled, while she was yet very young, to remove successively to Limoux, Bayonne, and Besançon. While at Bayonne, in 1823, she met with many partisans in the war then raging on the frontiers of Spain--men whose loyalty amounted to fanaticism, and whose piety belonged to the ancient time of the Crusades; from these her youthful imagination must have received powerful and indelible impressions.