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The Duchess Huguette de Lionzac was very much infatuated with herself, but then she had a perfect right to be, and who, in her place, would not have shown a spice of conceit? There was no success which she had wished for, that she had not attained. She had received a medal for sculpture at the _Salon_, and at the _Exhibition of Excessives_ she had shown a water-color which looked eccentric, even there.
She had published a collection of poems which was crowned by the French Academy, and a small volume of _Rhythmic Prose_ of which the _Revue de lemain_ said, "That it showed the most subtle and evanescent performance of those fugitive pieces which was sure to descend to posterity," and when she acted in private theatricals, some exclaimed: