Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

Standard Name: Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de
Used Form: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord

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Dedications Mary Wollstonecraft
It was dedicated to the French statesman Talleyrand , a supporter of the Revolution and the reputed lover of Germaine de Staël . She produced a second, revised edition by the end of the year...
Friends, Associates Mary Berry
Despite her relative poverty, MB moved easily in circles of the great and the good. Her closest friends were Anne Damer (whose death in 1828 was a terrible loss), Joanna Baillie (whom in 1831 she...
Leisure and Society Germaine de Staël
Her next salon was frequented by such luminaries as Alexander I , Talleyrand , and the Duke of Wellington .
Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
, 2001, pp. 12-35.
32
politics Germaine de Staël
GS met Napoleon for the first time in December 1797 at the home of one of her ex-lovers, Talleyrand . Their initial meeting was friendly enough; later, however, she openly criticized his politics and he...
politics Germaine de Staël
Habitués of her salon included Lafayette , Condorcet , Narbonne , Talleyrand , and Thomas Jefferson .
Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
, 2001, pp. 12-35.
21
In the following months she conspired with others to attempt the escape from revolutionary hands of aristocratic...
Reception Mary Wollstonecraft
MW 's fame began: she was visited by Talleyrand (aristocratic revolutionary and the dedicatee of her Vindication of the Rights of Woman), who was on a secret mission to England from the French government.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
146-7
Textual Production Sarah Grand
She wrote it, she said, because she felt there was something very wrong in the present state of society, and . . . I did what I could to suggest a remedy.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
213
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