2V Anne Sophie Swetchine MADAME SWETCHINE SA VIE ET SES OUVRES 1860 Decorative Binding Gilt Marbled Paper & Leather Russian Mystic Paris Salon Edited Frederic-Alfred-Pierre Comte de Falloux Catholicism Church Politics High Society
Title: Madame Swetchine: Sa Vie et Ses Oeuvres
Author: Madame Swetchine - Anne Sophie Swetchine (née Sofia Petrovna Soymonova), known as Madame Swetchine, was a Russian mystic, born in Moscow, and famous for her salon in Paris.
Editor: A. de Falloux - Frédéric-Alfred-Pierre, comte de Falloux was a French politician and author, famous for having given his name to two laws on education, favoring private Catholic teaching.
Publisher: Auguste Vaton, Libraire-Editeur
City: Paris
Year: 1860
Binding Style: Hardcover
Number of Volumes: 2 Full Set: Yes
Pagination: 506, 431 pages
Width: 4.75" Height: 7.25"
Book Details: This decorative antique two-volume set is bound in red quarter leather with marbled boards and marbled endpapers. Gilt lettering adorns the spines.

Madame Swetchine was born Sofia Petrovna Soymonova (sometimes Soïmonov or Soymanof) on 22 November 1782 in Moscow, the daughter of Secretary of State Peter Alexandrovich Soimonov (1734–1801) and his wife, Catherine Boltin (1756–1790). From 1826 until her death in 1856, she kept a salon at number 71, Rue Saint-Dominique. It became famous and was considered remarkable for its high level of courtesy and for its intellectual level. At it she often received Russian exiles, but her guests, who included Victor Cousin and Alexis de Tocqueville, were generally drawn from various sectors of French literary, political and ecclesiastical high society, but with a special interest in the Church. Hence among her guests were prominent Catholics such as the Archbishop of Paris, Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen, the abbé Félix Dupanloup, later Bishop of Orleans, and Prosper Guéranger, the founder of the Abbey of Solesmes. A prominent note was what has been spoken of as liberal Catholicism, and she accorded a particularly warm welcome to Charles de Montalembert, Armand de Melun, Augustin Cochin and especially Alfred de Falloux and Henri Lacordaire, who was to refound the Dominican Order in France. With the latter two she maintained a close lifelong friendship. Through her many contacts, she is regarded as having exercised an influence on French Catholicism.
Condition / Notes: This antique set shows nicely with mild indications of age and wear. Text is clear and crisp through sporadic light foxing.

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