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Matilde de Vernon, a distant cousin and friend of Delphine. She is quite the opposite of Delphine, being discreet, bigot, but deeply in love with Léonce though she doesn't show it at first. Madame de Vernon, Matilde's mother, a pleasant-looking woman, but who is actually sly and acts for her own interest only. However, her character can be ...
Delphine de Sabran, Marquise de Custine (18 March 1770 – 13 July 1826) was a French society hostess and woman of letters. Known for her beauty and intelligence, Madame de Abrantès referred to de Custine as "one of those lovely creatures that God gives to the world in a moment of munificence". [ 1 ]
Delphine de Vigan (born 1966), novelist and author of No et moi, translated into 20 languages; Marie-Catherine de Villedieu (1640–1683), playwright, novelist, and short-story writer; Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (c. 1695–1755), novelist, fairy-tale writer, and author of Belle et la Bête
Madame Girardin exercised considerable personal influence in contemporary literary society, and in her drawing-room were often to be found Théophile Gautier, Honoré de Balzac, Alfred de Musset and Victor Hugo. She frequently held spiritualist seances, known also to be attended by Victor Hugo and members of his family.
Véronique Delphine Delamare (born Couturier; 17 February 1822 – 8 March 1848) [1] was a French housewife who took numerous lovers and later committed suicide. She was said to have been the inspiration for Gustave Flaubert 's 1857 novel Madame Bovary .
He frequented spiritism during his exile (where he participated also in many séances conducted by Madame Delphine de Girardin) [48] [49] and in later years settled into a rationalist deism similar to that espoused by Voltaire. A census-taker asked Hugo in 1872 if he was a Catholic, and he replied, "No. A Freethinker." [50]
Delphine may refer to: Delphine (given name), list of people with the feminine given name; Delphine, an 1802 novel by Germaine de Staël; Delphine, a 1931 French film directed by Roger Capellani; Delphine, a 2019 Canadian film directed by Chloé Robichaud; SS Delphine, a yacht built in 1921 by John and Horace Dodge
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