I thought in view of the highly popular 'what are you listening to thread' in the other forum it would be appropriate here to have this one.
So I'll kick off and I'm reading the memoirs of the remarkable Madame de La Tour du Pin (Henrietta Lucy Dillion) who was born the same year as Beethoven in 1770 but lived much longer till 1853.
This takes the author from childhood through a marriage arranged after the aristocratic fashion of the day, to court life as a lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette in the years just preceding the French revolution. From then on life is a swift series of reversals of fortune: concealment during the Terror, emigration to the United States, a premature return to France after the Thermidorian Reaction, exile in England, public office for her husband under both Napoleon and Louis XVIII and the loss of 5 of her 6 children. This, then, is a private document, one that remained unpublished until almost a century after some of the key events it describes.
So I'll kick off and I'm reading the memoirs of the remarkable Madame de La Tour du Pin (Henrietta Lucy Dillion) who was born the same year as Beethoven in 1770 but lived much longer till 1853.
This takes the author from childhood through a marriage arranged after the aristocratic fashion of the day, to court life as a lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette in the years just preceding the French revolution. From then on life is a swift series of reversals of fortune: concealment during the Terror, emigration to the United States, a premature return to France after the Thermidorian Reaction, exile in England, public office for her husband under both Napoleon and Louis XVIII and the loss of 5 of her 6 children. This, then, is a private document, one that remained unpublished until almost a century after some of the key events it describes.
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