Madame Du Deffand And Her World
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Madame Du Deffand And Her World
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Author : Benedetta Craveri
language : en
Publisher: Halban Publishers
Release Date : 1994
Madame Du Deffand And Her World written by Benedetta Craveri and has been published by Halban Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Authors, French categories.
This biography of Madame du Deffand describes the life of this highly intelligent libertine and the role she played in the social and cultural life of 18th-century France. Quoting extensively from her subject's correspondence, Craveri attempts to relive the world of the philosophes of the Enlightment, centred around Voltaire and d'Alembert, and unravels a complex world of extreme intelligence, taste and sensibility, revealing a new view of reality, full of foreboding for the future.
Madame Du Deffand E Il Suo Mondo
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Author : Benedetta Craveri
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
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Madame Du Deffand Y Su Mundo
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Author : Benedetta Craveri
language : es
Publisher: Siruela
Release Date : 2005-02-15
Madame Du Deffand Y Su Mundo written by Benedetta Craveri and has been published by Siruela this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Personaje clave para entender el espíritu del siglo XVIII francés, Madame du Deffand (1697-1780) se ha convertido en la más perfecta y lúcida encarnación de cierta enfermedad del alma, el ennui, el tedio de vivir, el escepticismo llevado a sus últimas consecuencias: el aburrimiento. En 1718 se casó con el marqués Du Deffand y, tras una discreta separación de hecho, se hizo amante del regente. Invitada habitual en la corte de Sceaux, fue íntima amiga de la duquesa Del Maine y amante del presidente del parlamento. Cerca ya de los 50 años, se decidió a formar su propio salón en París, al cual acudirían, entre otros, Voltaire, D’Alembert, Montesquieu, Madame de Staal, y el último y más apasionado amor de su vida: el escritor inglés Horace Walpole. Su extensa correspondencia descubre un estilo que, según Sainte-Beuve, es «junto al de Voltaire, en la prosa, el más clásico y puro de esta época». Madame du Deffand pasa revista a los acontecimientos de una sociedad en donde el ingenio, la defensa del gusto y el culto a la inteligencia eran valores en alza. Sin embargo, sus cartas rebasan con mucho el género de la crónica mundana, y ello porque la marquesa vive, como ha dicho Cioran, azotada por el «flagelo de la lucidez».
The French Mind
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Author : Peter Watson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-03-17
The French Mind written by Peter Watson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-17 with History categories.
‘Majestic, ambitious' Literary Review _________________________________________________________________________________________ We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity, sophistication and self-assurance, and even their insistence that they are exceptional. But how did France become the country it is today, and what really sets it apart? Journalist and historian Peter Watson sets out to answer these questions in The French Mind, a dazzling history of France that takes us from the seventeenth century to the present day through the nation’s most influential thinkers. He opens the doors to the Renaissance salons that were a breeding ground for poets, philosophers and scientists, and tells the forgotten stories of the extraordinary succession of women who ran these institutions, fostering a culture of stylish intellectualism unmatched anywhere else in the world. It’s a story that takes us into Bohemian cafes and cabarets, into chic Parisian high culture via French philosophies of food, fashion and sex, while growing unrest hastens the bloody birth of a republic. From the 1789 revolution to the country’s occupation by Nazi Germany, Watson argues that a unique series of devastating military defeats helped shape the resilient, proud, innovative character of the French. This is a history of breathtaking ambition, propelled by the characters Watson brings to vivid life: the writers, revolutionaries and painters who loved, inspired and rivalled one another over four hundred years. It documents the shaping of a nation whose global influence, in art, culture and politics, cannot be overstated. _____________________________________________________________________ ‘An encyclopaedic celebration of French intellectuals refusing to give up on universal principles, rooted in the Enlightenment and French Revolution, while remaining slim, bringing up well-behaved children and falling in love at every opportunity’ The Times 'An engaging movement through time towards France’s recent reckonings with extremism, exceptionalism and empire’ TLS
Mme Du Deffand Et Son Monde
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Author : Benedetta Craveri
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-11
Mme Du Deffand Et Son Monde written by Benedetta Craveri and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11 with categories.
Madame du Deffand, la figure la plus énigmatique du XVIIIe siècle français... Qui est donc cette femme qui a tenu la dragée haute à Voltaire ? D où lui vient cette fantastique autorité ? Comment, sans avoir publié une ligne, sans avoir porté l un des grands noms de France, sans avoir joué le moindre rôle politique ou diplomatique, sans avoir même disposé d autres revenus qu une maigre pension, sans autre attrait ni savoir que ce qu on appelait alors " l esprit ", comment a-t-elle pu devenir de son vivant une telle légende et être considérée par la postérité comme une de nos meilleures " classiques " ainsi Marc Fumaroli résume-t-il la question qui sous-tend la formidable enquête de Benedetta Craveri. Exploitant la riche correspondance de la marquise, l auteure fait revivre l âge d or des Salons, ce monde des philosophes et des Lumières où allaient lever tant d idées neuves. Mais surtout, ce portrait au long cours nous attache à une figure exceptionnelle : libertine au temps du Régent, interlocutrice privilégiée de Voltaire, esprit brillant et doué d une lucidité destructrice, qui attendit d être âgée et aveugle pour éprouver une violente passion pour Horace Walpole de vingt ans son cadet. Madame du Deffand et son monde a été publié pour la première fois en 1982. Il a reçu le prix Viareggio du premier essai et le prix du Meilleur livre étranger. Il est ici réédité dans une version révisée et augmentée.
The Unpublished Correspondence Of Madame Du Deffand Tr By Mrs Meeke
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Author : Marie Vichy Chamrond Du De Deffand
language : en
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Release Date : 2015-08-22
The Unpublished Correspondence Of Madame Du Deffand Tr By Mrs Meeke written by Marie Vichy Chamrond Du De Deffand and has been published by Sagwan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-22 with categories.
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Mme Du Deffand Et Son Monde
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Author : Benedetta Craveri
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
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The Feminist Encyclopedia Of French Literature
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Author : Eva M. Sartori
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1999-07-30
The Feminist Encyclopedia Of French Literature written by Eva M. Sartori and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The earliest known literary productions by women living in Europe were probably written by French writers. As early as the 12th century, women troubadours in the south of France were writing poems. French women continued writing through the ages, their number increasing as education became more available to women of all classes. And yet, of the great number of works by women writers who preceded the current feminist movement, very few have survived. A few writers such as Marie de France, George Sand, and Simone de Beauvoir became part of the canon. But critics, mostly male, had judged the works of only a few women writers worthy of recognition. As part of the feminist move to reclaim women writers and to rethink literary history, scholars in French literature began to take a new look at women writers who had been popular during their lifetimes but who had not been admitted into the canon. This reference book provides extensive information about French women writers and the world in which they lived. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for authors; literary genres, such as the novel, poetry, and the short story; literary movements, such as classicism, realism, and surrealism; life-cycle events particular to women, such as menstruation and menopause; events and institutions which affected women differently than men, such as revolutions, wars, and laws on marriage, divorce, and education. The volume spans French literature from the Middle Ages to the present and covers those writers who lived and worked mainly in France. The entries are written by expert contributors and each includes bibliographical information. The entries focus on each writer's awareness of how her gender shaped her outlook and opportunities, on how categorizations, structures, and terms used to describe literary works have been defined for women, and the ways in which women writers have responded to these definitions. The volume begins with a feminist history of French literature and concludes with a selected, general bibliography and a chronology of women writers.
The Last Libertines
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Author : Benedetta Craveri
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2020-10-20
The Last Libertines written by Benedetta Craveri and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-20 with History categories.
An enthralling work of history about the Libertine generation that came up during—and was eventually destroyed by—the French Revolution. The Last Libertines, as Benedetta Craveri writes in her preface to the book, is the story of a group of “seven aristocrats whose youth coincided with the French monarchy’s final moment of grace—a moment when it seemed to the nation’s elite that a style of life based on privilege and the spirit of caste might acknowledge the widespread demand for change, and in doing so reconcile itself with Enlightenment ideals of justice, tolerance, and citizenship.” Here we meet seven emblematic characters, whom Craveri has singled out not only for “the romantic character of their exploits and amours—but also by the keenness with which they experienced this crisis in the civilization of the ancien régime, of which they themselves were the emblem.” Displaying the aristocratic virtues of “dignity, courage, refinement of manners, culture, [and] wit,” the Duc de Lauzun, the Vicomte de Ségur, the Duc de Brissac, the Comte de Narbonne, the Chevalier de Boufflers, the Comte de Ségur, and the Comte de Vaudreuil were at the same time “irreducible individualists” and true “sons of the Enlightenment,” all of them ambitious to play their part in bringing around the great changes that were in the air. When the French Revolution came, however, they found themselves condemned to poverty, exile, and in some cases execution. Telling the parallel lives of these seven dazzling but little-remembered historical figures, Craveri brings the past to life, powerfully dramatizing a turbulent time that was at once the last act of a now-vanished world and the first act of our own.
The Queens Of Society
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Author : Mrs. A. T. Thomson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
The Queens Of Society written by Mrs. A. T. Thomson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with Women categories.