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See also:AGOULT, See also:MARIE See also:CATHERINE SOPHIE DE See also:FLAVIGNY, COMTESSE D' (1805-1876), See also:French author, whose nom de plume was " See also:Daniel Stern," was See also:born at See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main on the 31st of See also:December 18o5. Her See also:father was a French officer who had served in the See also:army of the emigrant princes, and her See also:mother was the daughter of a Frankfort banker. She was married in 1827 to the See also:comte See also:Charles d'Agoult. In See also:Paris she gathered See also:round her a brilliant society which included See also:Alfred de See also:Vigny, Sainte-Beuve, See also:Ingres, See also:Chopin, See also:Meyerbeer, See also:Heine and others. She was separated from her See also:husband, and became the See also:mistress of See also:Franz See also:Liszt. During her frequent travels in See also:Switzerland, See also:France and See also:Italy shemade the acquaintance of See also:George See also:Sand, and figures in the Lettres d'un voyageur as " Arabella." By Liszt she had three children—a son who died See also:young; Blandine, who married M. Emile 011ivier; and Cosima, who married first Hans von Billow and later See also:Richard See also:Wagner. The See also:story of her See also:breach with Liszt is told under a very slight disguise in her novel Nelida (1845). On her return to Paris in 1841 she began to write See also:art criticisms for the Presse, and in 1844 she contributed to the Revue See also:des deux Mondes articles on Bettina von See also:Arnim and on Heinrich Heine, but her views were not acceptable to the editor, and Daniel Stern withdrew to become a contributor to the Revue independante. Mme. d'Agoult was an ardent apostle of the ideas of '48, and from this date her See also:salon, which had been See also:literary and See also:artistic, took on a more See also:political See also:tone; revolutionists of various nationalities were welcomed by her, and she had an especial friendship and sympathy for Daniele See also:Manin. In 1857 she produced a See also:national See also:drama, Jeanne Dare, which was translated into See also:Italian and presented with brilliant success at See also:Turin. The most important See also:section of Daniel Stern's See also:work is her political and See also:historical essays: Lettres republicaines (1848), Esquisses morales et politiques (1849), Histoire de la R€-volution de 1848 (3 vols., 1850-1853), Histoire des commencements de la Republique aux Pays-Bas (1872). Mme. d'Agoult died in Paris on the 5th of See also:March 5876. Her daughter Claire Christine (b. 1830), who married See also:Guy de Charnace, is known as a writer.
See Mme. d'Agoult, See also:Mes Souvenirs (1806-1833), 187 ; A. Cuvillier See also:Fleury, Portraits rivolutionnaires, vol. i. (1889) ; J. Mazzini, Lettres de See also:Joseph Mazzini a Daniel Stern (1872); A. Pommier, Madame la comtessed'Agoult (Daniel Stern), 1876; A. Ungherini, " Daniel Stern" in the Revista repubblicana (188o, No. 9) ; S. Rocheblave, tine Amitie romanesque, George Sand et Madame d'Agoult (1895).
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