Proust's Duchess How Three Celebrated Women Captured The Imagination Of Fin-De-Siecle Paris.

From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion -a brilliant look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffuhle-these were the three superstars of fin-de...