Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris
Author
Caroline Weber
Content
x + 715 + [16 photo] pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2018
Publisher
New York: Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf/Penguin Random House
Description
Focuses on Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, Comtesse Greffulhe; Laure de Sade, Comtesse Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus, who were the inspiration for the Duchesse de Guermantes in the novel In Search of Lost Time.
Main subject
Autobiography and Biography Literature and Literary Criticism
Weber, Caroline. Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris. New York: Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf/Penguin Random House, 2018. Sylvia. Accessed June 17, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1411.
