PROUST'S DUCHESS

From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion--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 Greff ulhe--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, transformed themselves, an d were t...[Llegir més]