The Romance of a Favourite (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Loliee, Frederic) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Romance of a Favourite Never perhaps have the two contrasted, yet sister, literary forms - history and the novel - been so happily blended in a theme susceptible of a treatment both documentary and romantic as in the life of the famous but little-known Madame de Castiglione. Surnamed the "Divine" because of her superhuman loveliness, Madame de Castiglione began her strange and radiant career of conquest as the secret emissary of Italy at the Court of the Tuileries; she speedily became the alleged "favourite" of Napoleon III.; she was, later on, the friend and counsellor of the princes of the House of Orleans; and she ended her days alone, far from the madding crowd, aweary of the world and of everything in it. It is impossible to exaggerate the ardent curiosity that was aroused by her varied, even fantastic, career. The very lack hitherto of any precise and really authentic details as to her life has been a natural, an inevitable, incentive to the imagination of the concocters of legend. The chameleonic aspects of this mysterious creature recall at one moment the tumultuous Clorinde of Émile Zola; at another, the ambiguous figure of Gilbert-Augustin Thierry´s Savelli; and yet again, as we behold her at the extreme limit of her career, the ghostly Rospiglieri of Henri de Regnier. 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.
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