Les Grands Ecrivains Francais Xixe Siecle Madame De Stael

Author : Albert Sorel
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364640425
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Madame De Staël (Classic Reprint) written by Albert Sorel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Madame De Staël NE Who knew madame DE stael inti mately and was thus enabled to gather at first hand the incidents of her life, namely, Madame Necker de Saussure, has said: Her works are, so to speak, in an abstract form the memoirs of her life. Madame de Stael her self said as much: When one writes to sat isfy the inspiration that possesses the soul, one's writings will involuntarily reveal every shade of one's manner of living and thinking. Thus I propose seeking the inspiration of Madame de Stael's works by studying the events of her life. Our earliest impressions of the external world become, unconsciously to us, the prism by which everything is afterward colored. With Chateaubriand, it was the gloomy soli tudes of Combourg, the heavy mists skirting the ocean and bounded only by the forests through which the storm-winds whistled. With Lamartine, it was the hills of Milly, a country home with quiet neighboring paths, a soft and filmy sky, a dim and fleeting horizon, a pious childhood at a Christian mother's knee. With Madame de Stael, it was in private life the scenes of a happy home, and in public those of a salon which was the meeting-place of the best intellects of the time, - where jest and m spiration followed each in turn; where all lit erary questions and all the problems of the universe were discussed, and where, as a con temporary has remarked, they discoursed end lessly upon the great truths of Nature, the immortality of the soul, the love of liberty, and the charms and dangers of the passions. A house like her parents' was always her ideal of home; happiness in marriage was her Uto pia, and to reign over a salon was the ambition of her life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.