Proust's duchess: how three celebrated women captured the imagination of fin-de-siècle Paris
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From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion—a brilliant 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.Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffuhle—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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9780307961792
9780307961792
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topic_facet | Aristocracy (Social class) Biography & Autobiography Chevigné, Laure de Contemporaries Greffulhe, Elisabeth History Intellectual life Literary Criticism Nonfiction Proust, Marcel Social life and customs Straus, Geneviève Women |