Madame Récamier, from the French of Édouard Herriot
Author : Édouard Herriot
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Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,47 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : Édouard Herriot
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Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,47 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : Joanne Major
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 2016-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1473844843
“Courtesan. Spy. Survivor. A gripping and meticulously researched account of the swashbuckling life of one of history’s most overlooked heroines.” —Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five Divorced wife, infamous mistress, prisoner in France during the French Revolution, and the reputed mother of the Prince of Wales’ child, notorious courtesan Grace Dalrymple Elliott lived an amazing life in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century London and Paris. Strikingly tall and beautiful, later lampooned as “Dally the Tall” in newspaper gossip columns, she left her Scottish roots and convent education behind to reinvent herself in a “marriage à-la-mode,” but before she was even legally an adult she was cast off and forced to survive on just her beauty and wits. The authors of this engaging and, at times, scandalous book intersperse the story of Grace’s tumultuous life with a family history that traces her ancestors from their origin in the Scottish borders, to their move south to London. It follows them to France, America, India, Africa, and elsewhere, offering a broad insight into the social history of the Georgian era, comprising the ups and downs, the highs and lows of life at that time. “A fascinating read . . . a shining example of research done well, presented coherently on the perfect subject: a powerful courtesan that time forgot.” —History of Royals “Set for the first time in the context of Grace’s wider family, this is a compelling tale of scandal and intrigue.” —Scots Heritage Magazine
Author : Edouard Herriot
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Page : 488 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard Récamier
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Page : 472 pages
File Size : 24,33 MB
Release : 1867
Category : France
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Author : Isaphene M. Luyster
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 338538138X
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : S. A.
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 1849
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Author : Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard Récamier
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Intellectuals
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Author : Amélie Cyvoct Lenormant
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Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9401142831
In her letters Mme de Staël provides a panoramic historical outlook of the European literary, cultural and political scene between 1789 and 1817, i.e. the Revolution, the Napoleonic era and the Restoration. This edition, as its French original, includes rare contemporary illustrations never published before in this connection. For this book there is no specific level of readership.
Author : J. Christopher Herold
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802138378
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