Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman by Francine du Plessix Gray

Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman

Francine du Plessix Gray

248 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced

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"A writer of scintillating style and resonant substance," ("Publishers Weekly"), bestselling author Francine du Plessix Gray chronicles the incandescent life of the most celebrated woman of letters of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era. The daug...

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