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_erda
082 _a848.609
100 1 _aHerold, J. Christopher
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aMistress to an age
_b: a life of Madame de Staël
_c/ by J. Christopher Herold
264 1 _aLondon :
_bHamish Hamilton,
_c1959
300 _ax, 486 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations, portraits
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
336 _2rdacontent
_astill image
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [465]-474) and index.
505 0 _aPart I. The Neckers
505 0 _aThe Obscure years of Monsieur Necker
505 0 _aThe romance of Suzanne Curchod
505 0 _aMadame Necker's drawing room
505 0 _aThe Trinity and the triangle
505 0 _aPart II. Love and politics
505 0 _aMarriage and emancipation
505 0 _aRevolution and intoxication
505 0 _aLove and politics
505 0 _aThe heartbreak and the terror
505 0 _aBenjamin
505 0 _a'This miserable gypsy life'
505 0 _aPart III. Two tyrants
505 0 _aIdeology
505 0 _aThe ideophobe defied
505 0 _aWeimar, Berlin and fate
505 0 _aThe Isle of Calypso
505 0 _aCorinne and Adolphe
505 0 _aFarce, tragedy, and histrionics
505 0 _aThe sword beats the spirit
505 0 _aPart IV. The Vanity of human wishes
505 0 _aCaliban
505 0 _aDefeat in victory
505 0 _aNot the port but the grave
600 _aStaël,
_cMadame de
_q(Anne-Louise-Germaine),
_d1766-1817
650 _aAuthors, French
_y19th century
_vBiography
651 _aFrance
_xIntellectual life
_y19th century
690 _aBiographies
_910968
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK
999 _c24432
_d24431