The Salon of Madame Necker 2 Volume Set
(Part of the The Salon of Madame Necker Series)
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Suzanne Curchod (1737-94) the highly educated and beautiful daughter of a Swiss pastor, was living at Lausanne when she agreed to marry the young Edward Gibbon, but the engagement was broken off. Employed as companion to the then fianc e of Jacques Necker (1732-1804), later the finance minister of Louis XVI, she married him in 1764. Their only daughter, Anne Louise Germaine, is better known as Madame de Sta l. Madame Necker was eager for her husband, a wealthy banker, to pursue a political career, but Jacques Necker's efforts towards financial reform made him unpopular at court, and his dismissal in July 1789 was one of the triggers for the French Revolution. His subsequent failure to control events led to his retirement to Switzerland in 1790. This biography, written by a descendant, the comte d'Haussonville, and translated by Henry Trollope, the son of Anthony, was published in English in 1882.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1108034837
ISBN13:9781108034838
Release Date:December 2011
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:638 Pages
Weight:1.96 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"
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