Madame de Staël
MADAME DE STAËL
BY
BELLA DUFFY.
LONDON:
W. H. ALLEN & CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE, S.W.
1887.
london:
printed by w. h. allen and co., 13 waterloo place, s.w.
PREFACE.
Unpublished correspondence—that delight of the eager biographer—is not to be had in the case of Madame de Staël, for, as is well known, the De Broglie family either destroyed or successfully hid all the papers which might have revealed any facts not already in possession of the world.
The writer of the present brief memoir has, consequently, had to fall back upon the following well-known works:
The Correspondance of the Abbé Galiani, of Mme. Du Deffand, of Rahel Varnhagen, and of Schiller; the Memoirs of Marmontel, of Mme. D'Arblay, of Mme. de Rémusat, of Mme. d'Abrantès, of Bourrienne, and of the Comte de Montlosier; Ticknor's Letters; Châteaubriand's Mémoires d'Outre Tombe; De Goncourt's Histoire de la Société Française pendant la Révolution, and Histoire de la Société Française pendant le Directoire; Lacretelle's Dix Années d'Épreuve; Michelet's Le Directoire, Le Dix-huit Brumaire, and Jusqu'à Waterloo; Le Salon de Madame Necker, by Vicomte d'Haussonville; Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy, by Vernon Lee; Byron's Letters; Benjamin Constant's Letters to Mme. Récamier; Coppet and Weimar; Les Correspondants de Joubert, by Paul Raynal; Les Causeries du Lundi, and other studies by Ste. Beuve; Droz' Histoire du Règne de Louis XVI.; Villemain's Cours de Littérature Française; the fragments from Constant's Journals, recently published in the Revue Internationale; Sismondi's Journals and Letters; and sundry old articles in the Revue des Deux Mondes; besides various other volumes, of which the list would be long and wearisome to detail.
CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I.—The Mother
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1 |
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CHAPTER II.—Germaine
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8 |
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CHAPTER III.—Girlhood and Marriage
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17 |
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CHAPTER IV.—Necker's short-lived Triumph
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28 |
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CHAPTER V.—Madame de Staël is courageous for her Friends
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42 |
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CHAPTER VI.—Retires to Coppet
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56 |
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CHAPTER VII.—The transformed Capital
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63 |
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CHAPTER VIII.—Madame de Staël meets Napoleon
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75 |
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CHAPTER IX.—New Faces at Coppet
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87 |
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CHAPTER X.—Madame de Staël visits Germany
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102 |
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CHAPTER XI.—Madame de Staël and Auguste Schlegel at Rome
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113 |
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CHAPTER XII.—Madame de Staël's second Marriage
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129 |
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CHAPTER XIII.—England again
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144 |
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CHAPTER XIV.—Closing Scenes
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157 |
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CHAPTER XV.—Her Works
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166 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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