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See also:SWETCHINE, MADAME (1782—1857) , See also:Russian mystic, whose See also:maiden name was Soymanof, was See also:born in Mpscow, and under the See also:influence of See also:Joseph de See also:Maistre became a member of the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church in 1815. In the following See also:year she settled in See also:Paris where, until her See also:death, she maintained a famous See also:salon remarkable no less for its high See also:courtesy and intellectual brilliance than for its religious See also:atmosphere. Though not physically beautiful she had a See also:personality of rare spiritual See also:charm, nurtured in the private See also:chapel of her See also:house. Her See also:husband, See also:General Swetchine, was 25 years her See also:senior. Her See also:Life and See also:Works (of which the best known are " Old See also:Age " and " Resignation ") were published by M. de See also:Falloux (2 vols., 1860) and her Letters by the same editor (2 vols., 1861).
See Sainte-Beuve, Nouveaux lundis, vol. i.; and E. See also:Scherer, Etudes sur la litterature contemporaine, vol. i.
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