The Salon of Madame Necker 2 Volume Set - Brossura

Comte D'Haussonville, Gabriel Paul Othenin De Cléron

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ISBN 10: 1108034837 ISBN 13: 9781108034838

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Suzanne Curchod (1737–94) the highly educated and beautiful daughter of a Swiss pastor, was living at Lausanne when she agreed to marry the young Edward Gibbon, but the engagement was broken off. Employed as companion to the then fiancée of Jacques Necker (1732–1804), later the finance minister of Louis XVI, she married him in 1764. Their only daughter, Anne Louise Germaine, is better known as Madame de Staël. Madame Necker was eager for her husband, a wealthy banker, to pursue a political career, but Jacques Necker's efforts towards financial reform made him unpopular at court, and his dismissal in July 1789 was one of the triggers for the French Revolution. His subsequent failure to control events led to his retirement to Switzerland in 1790. This biography, written by a descendant, the comte d'Haussonville, and translated by Henry Trollope, the son of Anthony, was published in English in 1882.

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Suzanne Curchod (1737–94) married Jacques Necker (1732–1804), later the finance minister of Louis XVI, in 1764; their daughter was Madame de Staël. This biography, written by a descendant, the comte d'Haussonville, and published in 1882, describes her life and her brilliant salon in pre-Revolutionary France.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1108034837
• ISBN 13: 9781108034838
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 638