(Lenormant, Amelie). MADAME DE STAEL AND THE GRAND-DUCHESS LOUISE. A Selection from the Unpublished Correspondence of Madame de Stael and the Grand-Duchess Louise of Saxe-Weimar, from 1800 to 1817. Together with a Letter to Bonaparte, First Consul; and Another to Napoleon, Emperor.; By the Author of "Souvenirs of Madame Recamier.". Saunders, Otley, and Co, London, 1862.

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Description: 8vo; xxiii, 223 pp. Bound by Riviere & Son in green calf, with gilt-decorated spine and five raised bands, gilt borders, all edges gilt. A very good copy. With tipped-in autograph letter dated 8 August 1825 from French writer and politician Benjamin Constant to poet Maurice de Guerin. An interesting association of a literary and political salon in 19th-century France. Amelie Lenormant was the niece and adopted daughter of Juliette Recamier, the great friend of Madame de Stael. Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (1767-1830) was a French political philosopher and intimate of Madame de Stael. Their collaboration made them a fierce intellectual pair. Constant was also the author of one novel --"Adolphe" -- a work in the sentimental tradition about a young man's disastrous love affair with an older mistress. French poet Maurice de Guerin (1810-1839) was probably more celebrated for his prose than his poetry. Its charm arises from de Guerin's absorbing passion for nature. According to Sainte-Beuve "no French poet or painter has rendered so well the feeling for nature -- the feeling not so much for details as for the ensemble and the divine universality, the feeling for the origin of things and the sovereign principle of life."

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(LENORMANT, Amelie). Madame de Stael and the Grand-Duchess Louise: A Selection from the Unpublished Correspondence of Madame de Stael and the Grand-Duchess Louise of Saxe-Weimar, from 1800 to 1817; Together with a Letter to Bonaparte, First Consul and Another to Napoleon, Emperor, by the author of "Souvenirs of Madame Recamier". Saunders, Otley, and Co, London, 1862.

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Description: First edition in English (first published in French, the same year, in Paris). Small 8vo. xxiii, 223 pp. Tipped-in at the front is a two-page autograph letter from French writer and politician Benjamin Constant, dated 8 August 1825, to the poet Maurice de Guerin; Constant (1767-1830) was a French political philosopher and intimate of Madame de Stael who published a single novel, "Adolphe," a work in the sentimental tradition about a young man's disastrous love affair with an older mistress. Fine copy. Somewhat later green polished calf, gilt, gilt rules framing boards, spine richly gilt with ornaments and rules between raised bands, leather spine label, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., by Rivière. (#4747).

Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.