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French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848
by Steven Kale
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with references to "Faubourg Saint-Germain".
Excerpt - on Page 29: "
... During the Bourbon Restoration, the aristocrats of Faubourg Saint-Germain liked to describe le monde as consisting of those received at court, but this appraisal reflected a desire to restrict ... "
Key Phrases:
Faubourg Saint-Germain, July Monarchy, Madame de Boigne, Second Empire, Republic of Letters, Delphine de Girardin, savait vivre heureux, political sociability, salon sociability, sociable traditions, republican salons, old sociability
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Les mondains de La comedie humaine: Etude historique et psychologique (French Edition)
by Rose Fortassier
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with references to "Faubourg Saint-Germain".
Excerpt - on Page 53: "
... Le soleil que Balzac portait dans son coeur parmi la grisaille du Faubourg Saint-Germain, c'était cette énergie, que Stendhal dit si antipathique aux gens du monde, qui la jugent vulgaire (16). Peut-être, sous l'influence ... "
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Faubourg Saint-Germain, Louise de Chaulieu, Lucien Leuwen, Madame de Beaus, Diane de Maufrigneuse, Chronique de Paris, George Sand, Delphine de Girardin, Madame Campan, Madame de Langeais, Cabinet des Antiques, Daniel Stern
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Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain (Vintage)
by Marcel Proust
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with references to "Faubourg Saint-Germain".
Excerpt - on Page 23: "
... old friend of my father said to us, speaking of the Duchess: "She has the highest posi- tion in the Faubourg Saint-Germain; hers is the leading house in the Faubourg Saint-Germain. ... "
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The Guermantes Way
by Marcel Proust
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with references to "Faubourg Saint-Germain".
Excerpt - on Page 4: "
... Saint-Loup, but fantasy assumes a new lease on life when, learning that the Duchesse de Guermantes reigns supreme over the Faubourg Saint-Germain, he begins to invest her name with further images of a glamorous and inaccessible world. ... "
Key Phrases:
Mme de Guermantes, Mme de Villeparisis, Marcel Proust, Princess of Parma, Duchesse de Guermantes, Princesse de Guermantes, Duc de Guermantes, Mme de Stermaria, Faubourg Saint-Germain, Mme de Marsantes, family genie, young footman
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