Proust's duchess: how three celebrated women captured the imagination of fin-de-siècle Paris
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A brilliant look at 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. “Weber has done a remarkable job of bringing to life…a world of culture, glamour and privilege.” —The Wall Street Journal
Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe—these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle 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. Against a rich historical backdrop, Weber takes the reader into these women's daily lives of masked balls, hunts, dinners, court visits, nights at the opera or theater. But we see as well the loneliness, rigid social rules, and loveless, arranged marriages that constricted these women's lives. 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.
Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe—these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle 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. Against a rich historical backdrop, Weber takes the reader into these women's daily lives of masked balls, hunts, dinners, court visits, nights at the opera or theater. But we see as well the loneliness, rigid social rules, and loveless, arranged marriages that constricted these women's lives. 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.
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Aristocracy (Social class)
Aristocracy (Social class) -- France -- Paris -- Biography
Biography & Autobiography
Chevigné, Laure de
Chevigné, Laure de, -- 1859-1936
Contemporaries
Greffulhe, Elisabeth
Greffulhe, Elisabeth, -- comtesse, -- 1860-1952
History
Intellectual life
Literary Criticism
Nonfiction
Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Proust, Marcel
Proust, Marcel, -- 1871-1922 -- Contemporaries
Proust, Marcel, -- 1871-1922 -- Sources
Proust, Marcel, -- 1871-1922. -- À la recherche du temps perdu
Social life and customs
Straus, Geneviève
Straus, Geneviève, -- 1849-1926
Women
Women -- France -- Paris -- Biography
Aristocracy (Social class) -- France -- Paris -- Biography
Biography & Autobiography
Chevigné, Laure de
Chevigné, Laure de, -- 1859-1936
Contemporaries
Greffulhe, Elisabeth
Greffulhe, Elisabeth, -- comtesse, -- 1860-1952
History
Intellectual life
Literary Criticism
Nonfiction
Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Proust, Marcel
Proust, Marcel, -- 1871-1922 -- Contemporaries
Proust, Marcel, -- 1871-1922 -- Sources
Proust, Marcel, -- 1871-1922. -- À la recherche du temps perdu
Social life and customs
Straus, Geneviève
Straus, Geneviève, -- 1849-1926
Women
Women -- France -- Paris -- Biography
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A brilliant look at 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. “Weber has done a remarkable job of bringing to life…a world of culture, glamour and privilege.” —The Wall Street Journal
Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe—these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle 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. Against a rich historical backdrop, Weber takes the reader into these women's daily lives of masked balls, hunts, dinners, court visits, nights at the opera or theater. But we see as well the loneliness, rigid social rules, and loveless, arranged marriages that constricted these women's lives. 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.
Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe—these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle 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. Against a rich historical backdrop, Weber takes the reader into these women's daily lives of masked balls, hunts, dinners, court visits, nights at the opera or theater. But we see as well the loneliness, rigid social rules, and loveless, arranged marriages that constricted these women's lives. 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.
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Proust's duchess : how three celebrated women captured the imagination of fin-de-siècle Paris
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Proust's duchess : how three celebrated women captured the imagination of fin-de-siècle Paris / Caroline Weber
Proust's duchess : how three celebrated women captured the imagination of fin-de-siècle Paris / Caroline Weber
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