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 Louis the Sixteenth and Maria Antoinette headed the list of subscribers, and in 1788 the society began their labours. These were crowned with the utmost success until the whirlwind of 1789 came to disperse the founders and patrons. Amidst the trials to which she was exposed, Madame de Fougeret had the opportunity of manifesting the greatness of her mind, and the energy of her character. Her husband expired on the guillotine, and she was left to sustain, encourage, and maintain her children; and, by judicious exertion of her abilities, she rescued from confiscation the patrimony of her family. After the restitution of her property she lived in the country, surrounded by a numerous offspring, to whom she was an object of love and veneration. In 1813, a painful malady terminated a life of virtue and good works.

FOUQUE, BARONESS CAROLINE DE LA MOTTE, the first wife of the Baron de la Motte Fouque so well known for his inimitable tale of Undine. She ranks among the most accomplished women of Germany. Her works are numerous, and have attained a high degree of celebrity; we will indicate a few of them:—"Letters on Greek Mythology," "Letters from Berlin," "Women of the World," "Woman's Love," "The Two Friends," "The Heroine of La Vendée," "Tales," in four volumes, "Theodora," "Henry and Maria," "Lodoiska and her Daughter."

FOUQUE, CAROLINE AUGUSTE DE LA MOTTE, in 1773, at Hernhauser. Her maiden name was Von Briest. She married first a gentleman named Von Rochow, from whom she was divorced in 1800, when she married Charles F. Baron de la Motte Fouqué, the poet of the romantic school. In 1807, she published "Roderic;" in 1808, "The Desk;" in 1809, "Letters on Female Education;" in 1810, "The Hero Maiden of the Verdi;" in 1811, "Edmund's Walks and Wanderings;" in 1812, "Magic of Nature;" and in 1814, "Feodore." She died in 1815.

FRANCISCA, FRANCES, lady, was the founder of a convent at Rome, called the Oblates. She followed the doctrines of St. Benedict, and was canonized in 1608. Many marvellous stories are told of the miracles performed by Francisca, who was noted for the religious mortifications she imposed on herself.

FRANKLIN, ELEANOR ANN, the daughter of Mr. Porden, an eminent architect, and was born in 1795. She early manifested great talent and a strong memory, and acquired considerable knowledge of Greek and other languages. A knot of literary friends, who occasionally met at her father's house, fostered this natural bent of her genius: and their habit of furnishing contributions to a kind of album kept by the party, under the name of the "Salt Box, (selections from which have been printed,) did much towards confirming in her a passionate fondness for poetry. In her seventeenth year she wrote, as her share towards this domestic miscellany, her first poem, "The Veils, or the Triumphs of Constancy," which was published in 1816, with a dedication to Countess Spenser. Three years afterwards appeared a small "Poetical