Description: Proust's Duchess : How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-siècle Paris, Paperback by Weber, Caroline, ISBN 0345803124, ISBN-13 9780345803122, Brand New, Free shipping in the US From the author of Queen of Fashion--a glittering look at fin-de-siècle Paris through the three women who inspired Proust's supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. The three superstars of turn-of-the-century Parisian high society were Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, Comtesse Greffulhe. All unhappily married, these women sought fulfillment by reinventing themselves as icons, and their fabled salons inspired generations of artists, composers, and writers. Caroline Weber takes us into these women's glamorous lives, showing us not only the balls, hunts, dinners, court visits, and nights at the opera but also the loneliness, rigid social rules, and arranged marriages that constricted them. Marcel Proust, as a young law student in 1892, first worshipped the three from afar and later met them and immortalized them in his celebrated composite character in In Search of Lost Time.
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Book Title: Proust's Duchess : How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-De-Siècle Paris
Number of Pages: 752 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2019
Topic: Women, Cultural Heritage, European / French, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Europe / France, Women's Studies, Customs & Traditions
Item Height: 1.5 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 32.5 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Caroline Weber
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
