Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — Was the Companion of Lamartine. [ARTICLE]

Was the Companion of Lamartine.

There died recently in Paris a woman whose sweet companionship consoled and cheered the declining years of Lamartine. Mile, de Cessia was ore of the many women who are content to live for a few and who never seek notoriety. She was the nieci of the poet, a daughter of his sister, and some time after he became a widower, when he was the prey of financial difficulties of the most trying kind, she took up her abode with him and remained to the last his most laithful adviser, companion and nurse. Of noble family on the paternal as well as the maternal side, she solicited and obtained the dignity of chanoinesse, which also confers the title of Comtesse, and it was as Crmtesse de Lamartine that she ruled her uncles household, acting the part of hostess to the numerous friends and admirers whom Lamartine was always pleased to gather around him. Many of those of a younger generation who wero admitted to the privacy of the aged poet remember with gratitude the warm welcome they received from his niece.—The Queen.