Thursday, July 2, 2009

This Explains Everything

Anne-Louise-Germaine de Stael-Holstein (nee Necker)
Madame de Stael
Delphine (1802)
5-page tale "The Reasons Why Leontine de Ternan Decided to Become a Nun.

"I was once a very beautiful woman, and I am now fifty years old. The two absolutely ordinary facts have been the cause of everything I have ever felt in life."

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22689?email

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