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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1913 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII MADAME RECAMIER'S life was now calm and peaceful. The only events which broke its monotony were the literary re-unions that she gave from time to time when a book created some stir or a new play achieved success, but these gatherings were held more to relieve her continual ennui than to maintain the reputation of her salon. She was not of the same mind as Madame de Cr6qui, who told S6nac de Meilhan that the world pleased her no longer, that she could not bear it, that "every day she found it more stupid." On the contrary, Madame Recamier continued to receive every newcomer in the world of celebrities according to her old plans. In spite of these visitors her evenings were far from amusing. Chateaubriand, as he grew old, did not become less rugged, and his friend could have repeated the words of Madame de Maintenon, during the last years of Louis XIV.: "What a torture to have to amuse a man who can no longer be amused." Monsieur de Remusat, according to Talleyrand, in his position as chamberlain to the Emperor, also knew the torture of amusing the unamusable. But this torment became one of Madame Recamier's habits, and, as it flattered her vanity, gave her a supreme joy. Yet the wearied attitude of Chateaubriand permeated the whole salon like a heavy vapour. Madame R6camier's stereotyped smiles were of little avail. They were not natural. Youth was wanting, and she had grown old in her eternal white robe. These drawbacks did not prevent her from forming in the autumn of her life a literary group which must take its SAINTE-BEUVE 307 place in the history of the intellectual movement of the nineteenth century. Sainte-Beuve assiduously frequented her salon.1 He had been introduced by M6rimee, and he tells us that, when being taken to the Abbaye-aux-...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235827836
- ISBN 13 9781235827839
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages92
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