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008			171213s2018 nyuaf b 001 0ceng
010			_a 2017038855
020			_a9780307961785 (hardcover)
020			_a9780345803122 (pbk.)
020			_z9780307961792
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050	0	0	_aPQ2631.R63 _bZ9818 2018
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100	1		_aWeber, Caroline, _d1969-
245	1	0	_aProust's duchess : _bhow three celebrated women captured the imagination of fin-de-siècle Paris / _cCaroline Weber.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2018.
300			_a715 pages : _billustrations, [16] pages of color plates ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
500			_a"This is a Borzoi book"
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aOverture: like a swan -- Rara avis (June 2, 1885) -- Leitmotif: pretty birds -- My Don Giovanni, my Faust -- The kingdom of shadows -- Habanera: oiseaux rebelles -- Bohemia's child -- The fall and the rise -- Good for the goose -- Improvisation: trills and feathers -- The art of being seen -- Bagatelle: birdsong -- Prince Charming -- Paris high and low -- A modern-day Aramis -- Chorale: love birds -- The lunatic, the lover, and the poet -- Lame ducks -- Variations: caged birds -- Kisses never given -- Fodder for sonnets -- Birds of paradise -- The picture of Mme Bizet -- Cadenza: painters, writers, parrots, prophets -- Elegance for beginners -- Our heart -- Pavane: pair-bonding -- In which Proust is disappointed -- Lament: oiseaux tristes -- Dead love, still undying -- The replacements -- Goddesses and monsters -- So long as the gesture is beautiful -- Sovereigns of transitory things (May 30, 1894) -- Rondo: the real king of bids, or vive le roitelet -- Coda: swan song.
520			_a"A brilliant look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffuhle--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, "transformed themselves, and were transformed by those around them, into living legends: paragons of elegance, nobility, and style." All well but unhappily married, these women sought freedom and fulfillment by reinventing themselves, between the 1870s and 1890s, as icons. At their fabled salons, they inspired the creativity of several generations of writers, visual artists, composers, designers, and journalists. Against a rich historical backdrop, Weber takes the reader into these women's daily lives of masked balls, hunts, dinners, court visits, nights at the opera or theater. But we see as well the loneliness, rigid social rules, and loveless, arranged marriages that constricted these women's lives. Proust, as a twenty-year-old law student in 1892, would worship them from afar, and later meet them and create his celebrated composite character for The Remembrance of Things Past"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aProust, Marcel, _d1871-1922 _vSources.
600	1	0	_aProust, Marcel, _d1871-1922 _xContemporaries.
600	1	0	_aProust, Marcel, _d1871-1922. _tÀ la recherche du temps perdu.
650		0	_aWomen _zFrance _zParis _vBiography.
650		0	_aAristocracy (Social class) _zFrance _zParis _vBiography.
600	1	0	_aStraus, Geneviève, _d1849-1926.
600	1	0	_aChevigné, Laure de, _d1859-1936.
600	1	0	_aGreffulhe, Elisabeth, _ccomtesse, _d1860-1952.
651		0	_aParis (France) _xSocial life and customs _y19th century.
651		0	_aParis (France) _xIntellectual life _y19th century.
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