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The Salon of Madame Necker (Paperback)
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The Salon of Madame Necker (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - European History, Volume 2
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Suzanne Curchod (1737 94) was living at Lausanne when she agreed to
marry the young Edward Gibbon, but the engagement was broken off.
Employed as companion to the then fianc e of Jacques Necker (1732
1804), later the finance minister of Louis XVI, she married him in
1764. Their only daughter, Anne Louise Germaine, is better known as
Madame de Sta l. Madame Necker was eager for her husband, a wealthy
banker, to pursue a political career, but Jacques Necker's efforts
towards financial reform made him unpopular at court, and his
dismissal in July 1789 was one of the triggers for the French
Revolution. His subsequent failure to control events led to his
retirement to Switzerland in 1790. Volume 2 of this biography,
written by a descendant, the comte d'Haussonville, and published in
English in 1882, covers the events leading to the Revolution, and
the exile and death of Madame Necker.
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