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Author: Sonja Boon Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317323688 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 193
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Madame Necker occupies a unique position in French social and cultural history. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly corporeal nature of Madame Necker’s life – her debilitating, decades-long psychic and somatic suffering and subsequent curious death.
Author: Sonja Boon Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317323688 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 193
Book Description
Madame Necker occupies a unique position in French social and cultural history. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly corporeal nature of Madame Necker’s life – her debilitating, decades-long psychic and somatic suffering and subsequent curious death.
Author: Haussonville (comte d') Publisher: ISBN: Category : Intellectuals Languages : en Pages : 304
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Necker "maintained a celebrated Paris salon, which was frequented by many eminent authors, including Diderot, D'Alembert, Morelet, Buffon, Marmontel, and Chastelux. She was the mother of Madame de Staël"--Bookdealer's description
Author: J. Christopher Herold Publisher: Grove Press ISBN: 9780802138378 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 516
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J. Christopher Herold vigorously tells the story of the fierce Madame de Stael, revealing her courageous opposition to Napoleon, her whirlwind affairs with the great intellectuals of her day, and her idealistic rebellion against all that was cynical, tyrannical, and passionless. Germaine de Stael's father was Jacques Necker, the finance minister to Louis XVI, and her mother ran an influential literary-political salon in Paris. Always precocious, at nineteen Germaine married the Swedish ambassador to France, Eric Magnus Baron de Stael-Holstein, and in 1785 took over her mother's salon with great success. Germaine and de Stael lived most of their married life apart. She had many brilliant lovers. Talleyrand was the first, Narbonne, the minister of war, another; Benjamin Constant was her most significant and long-lasting one. She published several political and literary essays, including "A Treatise on the Influence of the Passions upon the Happiness of Individuals and of Nations," which became one of the most important documents of European Romanticism. Her bold philosophical ideas, particularly those in "On Literature," caused feverish commotion in France and were quickly noticed by Napoleon, who saw her salon as a rallying point for the opposition. He eventually exiled her from France. This winner of the 1959 National Book Award is "excellent ... detailed, full of color, movement, great names, and lively incident" -- The New York Times "Mr. Herold's full-bodied biography is clear-eyed, intelligent, and written with abundant wit and zest." -- The Atlantic Monthly
Author: Francine du Plessix Gray Publisher: Atlas and Company ISBN: 9781934633212 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 257
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A profile of the Revolution and Napoleonic era's celebrated woman of letters discusses her upbringing in political and intellectual circles as the daughter of Louis XVI's minister of finances, her controversial affairs with some of the most influential men of her time, and her progressive ideals that prompted repeated exiles. 20,000 first printing.
Author: Haussonville (comte d') Publisher: ISBN: Category : Intellectuals Languages : en Pages : 344
Book Description
Necker "maintained a celebrated Paris salon, which was frequented by many eminent authors, including Diderot, D'Alembert, Morelet, Buffon, Marmontel, and Chastelux. She was the mother of Madame de Staël"--Bookdealer's description
Author: Sonja Boon
Author: Sonja Boon
Author: Haussonville (comte d')
Author: J. Christopher Herold
Author: Francine du Plessix Gray
Author: Haussonville (comte d')
Author: Mme. Susanne Curchod Necker
Author: Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine)
Author: Douglas William Freshfield
Author: Henry M. Trollope
Author: Edward Gibbon