Mother of the Church : Sofia Svechina, the Salon, and the Politics of Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Russia and France /

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"Sofia Petrovna Svechina (1782-1857), better known as Madame Sophie Swetchine, was the hostess of a famous nineteenth-century Parisian salon. A Russian emigre, Svechina moved to France with her husband in 1816. She had recently converted to Roman Catholicism, and the salon she opened acquired a...

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Main Author: Bakhmetyeva, Tatyana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Swetchine, > Madame > (Anne-Sophie), > 1782-1857.
Catholic Church.
Église catholique > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Catholic Church > France > History > 19th century.
Salons.
Intellectual life.
Catholic converts.
HISTORY / Europe / France.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious.
Salons litteraires > Russie > Saint-Petersbourg > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Salons litteraires > France > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Convertis catholiques > France > Biographies.
Salons > Russia (Federation) > Saint Petersburg > History > 19th century.
Salons > France > History > 19th century.
Catholic converts > France > Biography.
Russia (Federation) > Saint Petersburg.
France.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siecle.
Saint Petersburg (Russia) > Intellectual life > 19th century.
France > Intellectual life > 19th century.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I ST. PETERSBURG
  • PROLOGUE
  • CHAPTER 1 The World in Flux: The French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Russian Nobility
  • CHAPTER 2 In the Salons of St. Petersburg
  • CHAPTER 3 At a Religious Crossroads
  • CHAPTER 4 Becoming Catholic, Becoming Russian
  • PART II: PARIS
  • PROLOGUE
  • CHAPTER 5 Making Paris Home: The Micro-Politics of Friendship
  • CHAPTER 6 "Neutral Grounds in Paris": The Early Years of Svechina's Salon
  • CHAPTER 7 Svechina and French Religious Politics, 1830-1848
  • CHAPTER 8 The Kingdom of Saint-Dominique
  • CHAPTER 9 Opportunities Lost
  • CHAPTER 10 The New Crisis and the End
  • Conclusion Writing the Modern Saint
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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