Delphine de Girardin. Madeleine Las...

Delphine de Girardin. Madeleine Lassere. Paris: Perrin, 2002 348 pp Euro2250

Her husband Emile de Girardin, planter of La Presse, first paper at a retiring price, is better known. Still, she was socially at least as influential as he was with her salon, the chiefly prized in Paris. She was the constant Muse of French romanticism: in like with Vigny, a friend of Balzac, a disciple