Mistress To An Age

Name: Mistress To An Age: A Life Of Madame De Staël
ISBN: 9781786259806

A Life Of Madame De Staël

J. Christopher Herold

2016·517 pages·Nonfiction

History & Politics

National Book Award (1959) · Nominee

“An unforgettable portrait of a many-sided woman...as remarkable, as biting as that legendary figure herself”
— Saturday Review

GERMAINE DE STAËL: Mistress to an Age. An aristocrat and daughter of great wealth, she assisted at the birth of the French Revolution; her days and nights a turmoil of political and amorous intrigue, she wrote novels at the breakfast table and pamphlets while she changed her clothes. Disciple of constancy and the grand passion, she carried on ardent, profound love affairs with four brilliant, demanding men at the same time—and satisfied and tortured them all. Genius, great heart, great lover, any man who knew Germaine was hers forever.

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