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- Marie de Flavigny, countess d’Agoult (born Dec. 31, 1805, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]—died March 5, 1876, Paris, France) was a writer known for her role in and descriptions of Parisian society in the 1840s. She was the daughter of the émigré Comte de Flavigny. In 1827 she married Col. Charles d’Agoult, 20 years her senior.
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Marie de Flavigny, countess d’Agoult (born Dec. 31, 1805, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]—died March 5, 1876, Paris, France) was a writer known for her role in and descriptions of Parisian society in the 1840s. She was the daughter of the émigré Comte de Flavigny.
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Marie was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, the daughter of Alexander Victor François de Flavigny (1770 – 1819), a footloose emigré French aristocrat, and his wife Maria-Elisabeth Bethmann (1772 – 1847), a German-Jewish banker's daughter whose family had converted to Catholicism. The young Marie spent her early years in Germany and completed her ...
Marie's studies and intellectual discussions with friends and acquaintances created an environment where her thoughts and ideas developed into powerful arguments. Her friend and admirer, Thèophile de Ferriere, encouraged her to write. She had been inspired by another female writer, George Sand, also known as Amandine Dupin, the Baronne Dudevant, wh...
Marie d'Agoult's stands as a young woman who was driven to sacrifice everything for love in her scandalous affair with Franz Liszt. Thus causing her to be disowned by her family and separated from her children with Comte d'Agoult, and to be ostracized by the society of her time. Yet, through their relationship, and the liberal exchange and discussi...
Cronin, Vincent. Four Women in Pursuit of an Ideal. London: Collins, 1965; also published as The Romantic Way. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. ASIN B0000CMPJSd'Agoult, Marie. Nélida. State University of New York Press [1846] 2003. ISBN 0-7914-5912-8Haldane, Charlotte. The Galley Slaves of Love: The Story of Marie d'Agoult and Franz Liszt. London: Harvill Press, 1957. OCLC 2055460Rabine, Leslie. Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology (Women and Culture Series). University of Michigan Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0472100682Aug 11, 2000 · Abstract. Talented and resolutely independent, Marie d'Agoult (1805–76) was one of the most remarkable women of her time. Abandoning her privileged position in society, she eloped with her great love, the pianist and composer Franz Liszt, and later won fame as a writer under the penname Daniel Stern. She published fiction, articles on ...
- Richard Bolster
Marie d'Agoult. MARIE D'AGOULT, née Marie-Catherine-Sophie de Flavigny; married name the Comtesse d'Agoult; pen name Daniel Stern; born on December 31, 1805, at Frankfurt-on-Main; died March 5, 1876, in Paris. Writing under the pen name Daniel Stern, Marie d'Agoult was a frequent contributor to the French liberal opposition press of the 1840s ...
Mar 11, 2021 · Summary. Marie d’Agoult was famous in her own time as the lover of Franz Liszt and the mother of his children, one of whom, Cosima, married Richard Wagner. After her separation from Liszt, she made a career for herself as a femme de lettres and wrote a three-volume History of 1848 which was greatly admired by contemporaries including Flaubert ...
- Jonathan Beecher
- 2021
Oct 1, 2008 · Topics. Talented and resolutely independent, Marie d’Agoult (1805 76) was one of the most remarkable women of her time. Abandoning her privileged position in society, she eloped with her great love, the pianist and composer Franz Liszt, and later won fame as a writer under the penname Daniel Stern.
Talented and resolutely independent, Marie d'Agoult (1805-76) was one of the most remarkable women of her time. Abandoning her privileged position in socie...
