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Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siécle Paris
By Weber, Caroline
- ISBN
- 9780307961785 9780307961792
- Publisher
- Knopf.
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Starred Review on August 3, 2018 | NONFICTION
Three women venerated by French novelist Marcel Proust (1871–1922)—Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, Comtesse Greffulhe; and Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus—served as the basis for In Search of Lost Time's Duchesse de Guermantes character. Weber (French, comparative literature, Barnard Coll.; Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the Revolution) notes that past scholarship has ignored these women as media stars of their era before Proust immortaliz...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
