Julie

( 2 syl. ), the heroine of Molière’s comedy entitled Mons. de Pourceaugnac (1669). Julie ( 2 syl. ), the heroine of J. J. Rou eau’s novel entitled Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse (1760). The prototype was the Comte e d’Houdetot. Julie had a pale complexion, a graceful figure, a profusion of light brown hair, and her near-sighted ne gave her “a charming mixture of gaucherie and grace.” Rou eau went every morning to meet her, that he might receive of her that single ki with which French women salute a friend. One day, when Rou eau told her that she might innocently love others besides her husband, she näively replied, “Je pourrais done aimer mon pauvre St. Lambert.” Lord Byron has made her familiar to English readers. His love was pa ion’s e ence... This breathed itself to life in Julie; this Invested her with all that’s wild and sweet; This hallowed, too, the memorable ki Which every morn his fevered lip would greet From her’s, who but with friendship his would meet. Byron, Childe Harold , iii. 79 (1816).