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Mistress to an age

a life of Madame de Staël.

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An edition of Mistress to an Age (1958)

Mistress to an age

a life of Madame de Staël.

[1st ed.]
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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."

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Bobbs-Merrill Co.
Language
English
Pages
500

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Mistress to an age: a life of Madame de Staël
2002, Grove Press
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Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël
1981, Time-Life Books
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Mistress to an age: a life of Madame de Staël.
1958, Bobbs-Merrill Co.
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Book Details


Published in

Indianapolis

Edition Notes

99303

Includes bibliography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
928.4
Library of Congress
DC146.S7 H44, B St13

The Physical Object

Pagination
500 p.
Number of pages
500

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6250586M
Internet Archive
mistresstoagelif00hero
LCCN
58012385
OCLC/WorldCat
401488
Library Thing
250133

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