Madame Du Deffand And Her World

Craveri, Benedetta & Waugh, Teresa (Trans)

ISBN 10: 1870015517 / ISBN 13: 9781870015516

Edité par Peter Halban, London, UK, 1994

A propos de cet article

Biography of a woman who spent forty years of the eighteenth century at the centre of Paris life and was famed for her non-traditional female role, her many contacts, including Voltaire and her many affairs. 481pp.

N° de réf. du vendeur A5114

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Madame Du Deffand And Her World
• Éditeur: Peter Halban, London, UK
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1870015517
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781870015516
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Poids: 1100 grammes
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Women
  • Biographies & Memoires

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Synopsis

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. Gifted with destructive insight, and dominated by obsessive boredom, Madame du Deffand tended towards cynicism and wariness in her opinion of men, ever-fearful of being disappointed by others. When she became old and blind, she developed a passion for the young English writer Horace Walpole, son of the Prime Minister. The author has been awarded the Viareggio and Comisso prizes in Italy and the Prix de Meilleur Livre Etranger in France for this biography.

À propos des auteurs

A professor of French Literature at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy, Benedetta Craveri was born in Rome and now lives partly in Brussels. (Her husband is a French amabassador to NATO). A frequent contributor to the NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

Teresa Waugh was born in 1940. She is the author of eight novels and has translated numerous books from from French and Italian. She lives in Somerset and was married to the late Auberon Waugh.