Let us return once more to time past and try by the light of my setting sun to sketch a portrait in the heavens, over which an approaching night will soon spread its shadow.Īfter my return to France in 1800, as I have mentioned, a letter published in the Mercure caught the attention of Madame de Staël.

In the various ranks of society she met more or less famous people playing their parts on the world’s stage all worshipped her her beauty mingles its ideal existence with the material facts of our history a serene light illuminating a stormy picture. A correspondence is about to be opened between her and myself: the reader should therefore know more of whom I speak, and how and when I came to know Madame Récamier. ( Extracts from the 1839 material excised from the 1847-1848 revision)īefore passing on to my Rome Embassy, to that Italy, the dream of my days before continuing my tale, I ought to speak a little more of that woman who will not be lost from sight throughout the rest of these Memoirs.

Book XXIX: Chapter 17: A despatch to Monsieur le Comte Portalis – The death of Leo XII.

Book XXIX: Chapter 16: Letters to Madame Récamier.

Book XXIX: Chapter 14: Letters to Madame Récamier.

Book XXIX: Chapter 12: An explanation of the Memoir you are about to read.

Book XXIX: Chapter 11: A letter to Madame Récamier.

Book XXIX: Chapter 10: A letter to Monsieur Villemain.

Book XXIX: Chapter 9: Surroundings and countryside.

Book XXIX: Chapter 8: The present mode of life in Rome.

Book XXIX: Chapter 7: Past visitors to Rome.

Book XXIX: Chapter 6: Artists ancient and modern.

Book XXIX: Chapter 4: Leo XII and the Cardinals.

Book XXIX: Chapter 3: Letters to Madame Récamier.

Book XXIX: Chapter 2: The Rome Embassy - Three kinds of material – My Travel Journal.This work may be freely reproduced, stored and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose. Kline © Copyright 2005 All Rights Reserved Book XXIX: Madame Récamier, Rome 1828-1829

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