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Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël

J. Christopher Herold

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#483 of 3,809 books · #222 in Biography & Memoir

Won the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1959).

An aristocrat and daughter of great wealth, Germaine de Staël assisted at the birth of the French Revolution; her days and nights a turmoil of political and amorous intrigue, she wrote novels at the breakfast table and pamphlets while she changed her clothes. Disciple of constancy and the grand passion, she carried on ardent, profound love affairs with four brilliant, demanding men at the same time—and satisfied and tortured them all. Genius, great heart, great lover, any man who knew Germaine was hers forever.

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Publisher
Wagram Press
ISBN-13
9781786259806
Topics
Madame de StaëlFrench Revolution18th-19th century intellectual life

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