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marquise de Delphine de Sabran Custine
1770–1826
A sharp-eyed figure of post-Revolutionary France, she moved through salons, prisons, and high society with unusual resilience. Her life linked old aristocratic circles to the literary world that followed the upheavals of the French Revolution.
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Chateaubriand et Madame de Custine: Episodes et correspondance inédite
by Émile Chédieu de Robethon, vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand, marquise de Delphine de Sabran Custine
About the author
Born in Paris in 1770, Delphine de Sabran, Marquise de Custine, was a French woman of letters and noted salon hostess. She came from an old aristocratic family and lived through the turmoil of the French Revolution, a period that reshaped both her fortunes and her world.
She is remembered not only for her beauty and wit, but also for the force of her personality and the company she kept. After the Revolution, her salon became a meeting place for prominent political and literary figures, and her life intersected with many of the major currents of French society in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Delphine de Custine was also the mother of Astolphe de Custine, who would become well known as a writer and traveler. Her own reputation endures as that of an intelligent, socially influential woman whose life captures both the glamour and the instability of her age.