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  congenial with his. She therefore recommended to him this marriage, which actually took place after the lapse of over a year of mourning was expired. This union seems to have been fraught with happiness to both parties. Madame Elise Gulzot preserved her simplicity as wife of the minister, and used her influence, and added fortune only to promote plans of utility and beneficence. M. Guizot's political and literary life is too well known to demand any detail; but that he has maintained through every temptation and trial his consistency of principle, and his untarnished honour, is doubtless to be ascribed, in a great measure, to the purity of heart and uncommon culture of mind which distinguished his two successive wives. Even after their decease, the memory of their pious examples was to him as guardian angels amid the perils of power and the seductions of flattery. Madame Elise Guizot died in 1833, universally regretted, leaving three young children to her husband's care. She was beloved by all her connections; the warmth of her heart being as remarkable as the brilliancy of her intellect. She wrote some works of an ethical character; several novels, somewhat in the style of Miss Martineau; and she was a constant contributor to the "Revue Française," in valuable Essays upon English, German, and Italian Literature.

GUYARD, ADELAIDE SABILLE, born at Paris in 1749, and acquired a merited reputation by her portraits in miniature, crayons, and oil. She married M. Vincent, a distinguished artist. She died in 1803, partly of grief at the destruction of a favourite picture which had cost her several years' labour, by the revolutionary fanatics.

GUYON, JEANNE MARIE BOUVIER DE LA MOTTE, friend of the celebrated Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray, and memorable for her sufferings in defence of her religious opinions, was the descendant of a noble family, and born at Montagris in France, April 13th., 1648. At seven years of age she was sent to the convent of the Ursulines; here the sensibility of her constitution and temper, aided by the impressions received in a monastic life, gave her an early propensity to enthusiasm. The confessor of Henrietta Maria, widow of Charles the First, struck by the character and ardour of the young devotee, presented her, when scarcely eight years old, to the queen, who, but for the opposition of her parents, would have retained her in her family.

Jeanne was desirous of taking the veil, but was overruled by her father, who obliged her to marry M. Guyon, a wealthy gentleman. This union was not a very happy one; and at the age of twenty-eight Madame Guyon was left a widow, with two sons and a daughter, of whom she was appointed sole guardian. The first years of her widowhood she devoted to the regulation of her domestic affairs, the education of her children, and the management of their fortune; in which employments she displayed great energy and capacity. By these occupations, however, she was not prevented from conforming to the ceremonials of the Catholic church, which she continued to observe with a rigorous austerity.

In the midst of these duties, she was suddenly seized with a spiritual impulse; and, under the delusions of a heated imagination,