A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Robert, Clemence
ROBERT, CLEMENCE,
Is a Parisian, and one of the most popular contributors to public amusement among the writers of the Roman Feuilleton. Her stories are for the most part interesting; generally they are based upon some historical event. "Vincent de Paule" is one of the best, in which the evangelical piety of that father of the fatherless is beautifully described. It would be useless and impossible to give a catalogue of all the productions of so fertile a pen, but we will mention some of the most noted of her tales:—"Louise de Lorraine;" "Anne de Mantoue;" "Le Capitaine Mandrin:" "Le Cardinal Wolsey;" "Jeanne de Castille." The style of this lady is clear and expressive; her sentiments are always delicate and refined. There is in the minds of many, a brand of impropriety upon French novels—this, with one or two notorious exceptions, is just only when applied to the writings of Frenchmen—the romances of the lady authors are almost universally free from any taint of indelicacy, and their morality is based upon the truths of religion.