I hope one of these links open ( see below). This book
is an invaluable source of information about Chateaubriand and Benjamin
Constant, among various other illustrious writers.
Was it Nabokov who once joked about giving name
to a couch ( Mme Récamier) or to a steak
(Chateubriand)?
As his
subtle analysis makes clear, thelove
lettersexchanged in a
series of highly...Constantand Germaine de Stael; Juliette
Recamier andChateaubriand;...
After praising the eroticism oflove
letters, now an all but moribund genre, Hofstadter...Constantand Germaine de Staël; Juliette
Récamier andChateaubriand;...
14/02/1996 –The great age of thelove
letteris well behind us,
put to rest by the telephone,...famous love affairs of French
writers, beginning with BenjaminConstant,
not...Chateaubriand,
for example, whose lover of many years was a...