The passionate exiles : Madame de Staël and Madame Récamier
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Type of record: Book
Title: The passionate exiles : Madame de Staël and Madame Récamier
Other titles: Amitié amoureuse; Madame de Staël and Madame Récamier
Classmark: Pencheon Collection LEV
Creator(s): Levaillant, Maurice (1883-1961)
Additional creator(s): Barnes, Malcolm (Translator); Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982) (Former owner)
Related people: Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817; Récamier, Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard, 1777-1849; Récamier, Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard, 1777-1849; Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817; Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817; Recamier, Jeanne Francoise Julie Adelaide Bernard, 1777-1849
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd; C. Tinling and Co., Ltd
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1958
Language: English
Size and medium: 357 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/776891
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020267897405181
Description
"Bibliographical note": pages 347-350, includes index.
"Translated from the French original, Une amitié amoureuse. © Hachette, Paris, 1956."--Title page verso.
Foreword -- Prologue -- 1. Two women -- 2. Defiance of the master of France -- 3. Italian interlude -- 4. Dear prosper -- 5. In the groves of Vincelles -- 6. The misfortunes of Juliette -- 7. The lost paradise -- 8. The great days of coppet -- 9. Prince charming -- 10. Renunciation and despair -- 11. Benjamin's secret marriage -- 12. Anxieties and mysticism -- 13. Three hearts in a labyrinth -- 14. Melodrama at Sécheron -- 15. Sentimental imbroglio -- 16. Coppet-Sur-Loire -- 17. The last illusions -- 18. Suppression of the book on Germany -- 19. Return to Léman -- 20. "To love is divine" -- 21. The prefect-gendarme -- 22. The proscription of Madame Récamier -- 23. The recluse of Châlons -- 24. The great departure -- 25. The mad passion of Auguste De Staël -- 26. In the shadow of death -- Appendices: I. Madame de Staël's letters to Madame Récamier; II. Benjamin Constant's Cécile -- Biographical note -- Index.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Pencheon Collection LEV: From the collection of James Michael Pencheon (1924-1982).
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