Agoult, Marie d' (1805–1876)
Agoult, Marie d' (1805–1876)
French author and salonnière. Name variations: Marie de Flavigny, comtesse d'Agoult; (pseudonym) Daniel Stern. Born Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Dec 31, 1805; died in Paris, France, Mar 5, 1876; m. the Comte d'Agoult, 1827, but left him and formed a liaison with Hungarian composer Franz Liszt; children: (with Liszt) 3 daughters, including Cosima Wagner (1837–1930).
Wrote the semi-autobiographic romance Nélida (1845), Lettres Républicaines (1848), Histoire de la Révolution de 1848 (1851), Mes Souvenirs, 1806–33 (1877), Florence et Turin and Dante et Goethe. Her Esquisses Morales et Politiques (1849) is considered her best work.
See also Women in World History.
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