AuthorStaรซl, Madame De. author
TitleSelected Correspondence [electronic resource] / by Madame De Staรซl
ImprintDordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4283-0
Descript XV, 414 p. online resource

SUMMARY

In her letters Mme de Staรซl provides a panoramic historical outlook of the European literary, cultural and political scene between 1789 and 1817, i.e. the Revolution, the Napoleonic era and the Restoration. This edition, as its French original, includes rare contemporary illustrations never published before in this connection. For this book there is no specific level of readership


CONTENT

1. Childhood and Adolescence -- 2. Madame de Staรซl, Ambassadress of Sweden (1786) -- 3. The Beginnings of the Revolution (1789-1791) -- 4. Count de Narbonne (1792-1793) -- 5. Madame de Staรซl and her Friends in Switzerland (1793) -- 6. Count Ribbing, โThe Beautiful Regicide โ (1793-1795) -- 7. Madame de Staรซl, Benjamin Constant and the Directory (1795-1799) -- 8. The Opposition to Bonaparte; the Exile Begins (1800-1803) -- 9. The Journey to Germany, Weimar and Berlin (1803-1804) -- 10. The Death of Necker (1804) -- 11. Corinne and Italy (1805) -- 12. โThe Terrible Year 1806 โ and the Great Days of Coppet -- 13. The Stay in Vienna and Maurice OโDonnell (1808-1809) -- 14. The crisis of โOn Germany โ (1810-1812) -- 15. The Great Journey, Russia, Sweden, England (1812-1814) -- 16. The Return to France, the Hundred Days, the Restoration (1814-1815) -- 17. Albertineโs Wedding, the Year with Byron, Death (1815-1817) -- Notes


SUBJECT

  1. Linguistics
  2. Political science
  3. Romance languages
  4. Linguistics
  5. Romance Languages
  6. Political Science