The Salon of Madame Necker
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2011
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-03481-4 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-03481-4 (ISBN)
Suzanne Curchod (1737–94) married Jacques Necker (1732–1804), later the finance minister of Louis XVI, in 1764; their daughter was Madame de Staël. This biography, written by a descendant, the comte d'Haussonville, and published in 1882, describes her life and her brilliant salon in pre-Revolutionary France.
Suzanne Curchod (1737–94) was living at Lausanne when she agreed to marry the young Edward Gibbon, but the engagement was broken off. Employed as companion to the then fiancée of Jacques Necker (1732–1804), later the finance minister of Louis XVI, she married him in 1764. Their only daughter, Anne Louise Germaine, is better known as Madame de Staël. Madame Necker was eager for her husband, a wealthy banker, to pursue a political career, but Jacques Necker's efforts towards financial reform made him unpopular at court, and his dismissal in July 1789 was one of the triggers for the French Revolution. His subsequent failure to control events led to his retirement to Switzerland in 1790. Volume 1 of this biography, written by a descendant, the comte d'Haussonville, and published in English in 1882, describes Suzanne's early life, her marriage, and the establishment of her brilliant Paris salon.
Suzanne Curchod (1737–94) was living at Lausanne when she agreed to marry the young Edward Gibbon, but the engagement was broken off. Employed as companion to the then fiancée of Jacques Necker (1732–1804), later the finance minister of Louis XVI, she married him in 1764. Their only daughter, Anne Louise Germaine, is better known as Madame de Staël. Madame Necker was eager for her husband, a wealthy banker, to pursue a political career, but Jacques Necker's efforts towards financial reform made him unpopular at court, and his dismissal in July 1789 was one of the triggers for the French Revolution. His subsequent failure to control events led to his retirement to Switzerland in 1790. Volume 1 of this biography, written by a descendant, the comte d'Haussonville, and published in English in 1882, describes Suzanne's early life, her marriage, and the establishment of her brilliant Paris salon.
1. The archives at Coppet; 2. The Curchod family - the parsonage at Crassier - society in Lausanne; 3. Gibbon; 4. Death of M. and Mme. Curchod - Mme. de Vermenoux - departure for Paris - M. Necker - marriage; 5. The fridays: Marmontel, and the Abbé Morellet; 6. Grimm and Diderot; 7. D'Alembert - Mademoiselle de Lespinasse - the Abbé Galliani - Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - Dorat; 8. The ladies: Madame de Vermenoux - Madame Geoffrin - La Maréchale de Luxembourg - La Duchesse de Lauzun; 9. La Marquis de Deffand - La Marquise de la Ferté-Imbault - Madame de Marchais; 10. La Comtesse d'Houdetot; 11. The gentlemen: Moultou; 12. Buffon: his correspondence with Madame Necker - his last days; 13. Thomas.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.12.2011 |
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Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Library Collection - European History ; Volume 1 |
Übersetzer | Henry M. Trollope |
Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 440 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-108-03481-0 / 1108034810 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-03481-4 / 9781108034814 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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