Dona Luisa was no longer confining herself to those of her neighborhood.

With the courage induced by extraordinary events, she was traversing Paris afoot and going from the Madeleine to Notre Dame, or to the Sacre Coeur on the heights of Montmartre.

Religious festivals were now thronged like popular assemblies.

The preachers were tribunes.

Patriotic enthusiasm interrupted many sermon with applause.
Each morning on opening the papers, before reading the war news, Senora Desnoyers would hunt other notices.