Marie d'Agoult
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Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, Vicomtesse de Flavigny (December 31, 1805 - March 5, 1876), was a French author, known also by her married name and title, Marie, Comtesse d'Agoult, and by her pen name, Daniel Stern.
She was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, the daughter of Alexander Victor François de Flavigny (1770-1819), an emigré French aristocrat, and his wife Maria Elisabeth Bethmann (1772-1847). Educated in a French monastery, she married Charles Louis Constant d’Agoult, Comte d'Agoult (1790-1875) on May 16, 1827, thereby becoming the Comtesse d'Agoult. They had two daughters, Louise (1828-1834) and Claire (1830-1912). They were divorced on August 19, 1835.
From 1835 to 1839 she lived with, but did not marry, composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Their children were Blandina (1835-1862), who married Émile Ollivier; Cosima (1837-1930) (who married Richard Wagner); and Daniel (1839-1859). Chopin dedicated his second set of piano etudes to her.
She died in Paris, and was buried in Division 54 of Père Lachaise Cemetery.
[edit] Works
Her first stories (Hervé, Julien, Valentia, Nélida) were published in 1841-1845. Her best-known work (written as "Daniel Stern") is the Histoire de la Révolution de 1848 (1851, in 2 volumes). Her other works include Esquisses morales (1849), Trois journées de la vie de Marie Stuart (1856), Florence et Turin (1862), Histoire des commencements de la république aux Pays-Bas (1872), and Mes souvenirs (1877, posthumously).
[edit] References
- Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions
- d'Agoult, Marie (1846, 2003 edition). Nélida. State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-5912-8.
- Stern, Daniel (1851, 1985 edition). Histoire de la révolution de 1848. Balland. ISBN 2-7158-0500-4.
- Stern, Daniel (1859). Esquisses morales; pensées, réflexions et maximes. J. Techener.
- Walker, Alan (1983). Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years 1811-1847. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-9421-4.
[edit] Bibliography
- Books primarily about Marie d'Agoult include
- Stock-Morton, Phyllis. The life of Marie d'Agoult, alias Daniel Stern. Baltimore; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8018-6313-9.
