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Proust's duchess : how three celebrated women captured the imagination of fin de siلecle Paris

Weber, Caroline, 1969- author

2018

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\"A ... look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Geneviلeve Halâevy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhâeaume de Chevignâe; and âElisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffuhle--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siلecle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, 'transformed themselves, and were transformed by those around them, into living legends: paragons of elegance, nobility, and style.' All well but unhappily married, these women sought freedom and fulfillment by reinventing themselves, between the 1870s and 1890s, as icons. At their fabled salons, they inspired the creativity of several generations of writers, visual artists, composers, designers, and journalists ... Proust, as a twenty-year-old law student in 1892, would worship them from afar, and later meet them and create his celebrated composite character for The Remembrance of Things Past\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Subject: Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 Sources. / Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 Contemporaries. / Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. / Straus, Geneviلeve, 1849-1926. / Chevignâe, Laure de, 1859-1936. / Greffulhe, Elisabeth, comtesse, 1860-1952. / Women France Paris Biography. / Aristocracy (Social class) France Paris Biography. / Paris (France) Social life and customs 19th century. / Paris (France) Intellectual life 19th century.
• ISBN: 9780307961785, 9780345803122

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PQ2631.R63 Z9818 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE