Browsing named entities in Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays. You can also browse the collection for Port Royal (South Carolina, United States) or search for Port Royal (South Carolina, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Mademoiselle's campaigns. (search)
the Princesse de Paphlagonie, gently satirizes this passion of her friend. And Mademoiselle herself finally eclipsed the Sable by her own entertainments at her palace of the Luxembourg, where she offered no dish but one of gossip, serving up herself and friends in a course of Portraits so appetizing that it became the fashion for ten years, and reached perfection at last in the famous Characters of La Bruyere. Other heroines went into convents, joined the Carmelites, or those nuns of Port-Royal of whom the Archbishop of Paris said that they lived in the purity of angels and the pride of devils. Thither went Madame de Sable herself, finally,--the late Madame, as the dashing young abbes called her when she renounced the world. Thither she drew the beautiful Longueville also, and Heaven smiled on one repentance that seemed sincere. There they found peace in the home of Angelique Arnould and Jacqueline Pascal. And thence those heroic women came forth again, when religious war thr