Editing Marie d'Agoult

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'''Marie Catherine Sophie, Comtesse d'Agoult''' (born '''de Flavigny'''; 31 December 1805{{spaced ndash}}5 March 1876), was a French [[romanticism|romantic]] author and historian, known also by her pen name, '''Daniel Stern'''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bolster|first=Richard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n8kENZWVxVwC&q=marie+d'agoult|title=Marie d'Agoult: The Rebel Countess|date=1 October 2008|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-13768-2|language=en}}</ref>

==Life==
Marie was born in [[Frankfurt am Main]], Germany,<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Agoult, Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, Comtesse d' |volume= 1 |page= 381 }}</ref> with the full name of '''Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny''', the daughter of Alexandre Victor François, Vicomte de Flavigny (1770–1819), a footloose émigré French aristocrat, and his wife [[Bethmann family|Maria Elisabeth Bethmann]] (1772–1847), whose father was the German merchant and banker [[Johann Philipp Bethmann]] (1715–1793). The young Marie spent her early years in Germany and completed her education in a French convent after the [[Bourbon Restoration in France|Bourbon Restoration]].

She entered into an early [[marriage of convenience]] with Charles Louis Constant d'Agoult, Comte d'Agoult (1790–1875) on 16 May 1827, thereby becoming the Comtesse d'Agoult. They had two daughters, Louise (1828–1834) and Claire (1830–1912). Marie never divorced the count, even though she had left him for Franz Liszt.

From 1835 to 1839, she lived with composer and [[virtuoso]] pianist [[Franz Liszt]], who was six years younger, and was then a rising concert star. She became close to Liszt's circle of friends, including [[Frédéric Chopin]] (despite the hatred between her and Chopin’s partner [[George Sand]]), who dedicated his [[Études (Chopin)#Études Op. 25|12 Études, Op. 25]] to her (his earlier set of [[Études (Chopin)#Études Op. 10|12 Études, Op. 10]] had been dedicated to Liszt). Liszt's "Die Lorelei", one of his very first pieces, based on text by [[Heinrich Heine]], was also dedicated to her. 

From summer 1837 until autumn 1839 they travelled to [[Italy]] and [[Switzerland]], staying successively in [[Bellagio, Lombardy|Bellagio]], [[Milan]], [[Venice]], [[Lugano]], [[Modena]], [[Florence]], [[Bologna]] and [[Rome]]. It was these travels that inspired the composer to write his cycle of piano collections entitled [[Années de pèlerinage]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Liszt |first=Franz |url= |title=Années de pèlerinage: Deuxième année, Italie |publisher=Henle |others=Ernst Herttrich, Hans-Martin Theopold |year=1978 |isbn= |location=München |pages=III |language=en, de, fr |ismn=979-0-2018-0174-2 |oclc=4906095}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Liszt |first=Franz |date=2020 |editor-last=Jost |editor-first=Peter |title=Années de pèlerinage, Première Année - Suisse |url=https://www.henle.de/en/detail/?Title=Ann%C3%A9es+de+p%C3%A8lerinage,+Premi%C3%A8re+Ann%C3%A9e+-+Suisse_1490&setgeolang=en |archive-url= |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=www.henle.de |publisher=G. Henle Verlag |page=V, VI |format=}}</ref>

D'Agoult had three children with Liszt; however, she and Liszt did not marry, maintaining their independent views and other differences while Liszt was busy composing and touring throughout Europe.
[[File:Marie d'Agoult par Théodore Chasseriau.jpg|thumb|Portrait of d'Agoult by [[Théodore Chassériau]] (Musée du Louvre)]]

Her children with Liszt were:
* Blandine Rachel (1835–1862), who was the first wife of future French prime minister [[Émile Ollivier]] and died at the age of 26
* [[Cosima Wagner|Francesca Gaetana Cosima]] (1837–1930), who first married pianist and conductor [[Hans von Bülow]] and then composer [[Richard Wagner]]
* Daniel (1839–1859), who was already a promising pianist and gifted scholar when he died of [[tuberculosis]].

In 1876, she died in Paris, aged 70, and was buried in Division 54 of [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]].

==Works==
[[File:Marie d'Agoult by Adam-Salomon, c1861.png|thumb|upright|d'Agoult in 1861. Photo by [[Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon|Adam-Salomon]].]]
*Her first stories (''Hervé'', ''Julien'', and ''Valentia''), published 1841–1845
* ''Histoire de la révolution de 1848'' (appearing from 1850 to 1853, in 3 volumes), her best known work published under the name Daniel Stern<ref>{{cite book|last=Stern|first=Daniel|title=Histoire de la révolution de 1848|publisher=Balland|orig-year=First published 1851|year=1985|isbn=2-7158-0500-4}}</ref>
* ''[[Nélida]]'', a novel (1846)<ref>{{cite book|last=d'Agoult|first=Marie|title=Nélida| publisher= State University of New York Press|orig-year=First published 1846|year=2003|isbn=0-7914-5912-8}}</ref>
* ''Lettres Républicaines'' in ''Esquisses morales et politiques'' (1849, collected articles)<ref>{{cite book|last=Stern|first=Daniel|title=Esquisses morales; pensées, réflexions et maximes|url=https://archive.org/details/esquissesmorale00agougoog|publisher=J. Techener|year=1859}}</ref>
* ''Trois journées de la vie de Marie Stuart'' (1856)
* ''Florence et Turin'' (1862)
* ''Histoire des commencements de la république aux Pays-Bas'' (1872)
*''A Catholic Mother Speaks to Her Children'' (1906, posthumously)<ref>''A Catholic Mother Speaks to Her Children'', De Flavigny, Marie. Catholic Encyclopedia, New Haven, Connecticut, 1906, Outskirts Press. 2011 edition</ref>
*''Mes souvenirs'' (1877, posthumously).
* Correspondence with Liszt<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Gut|editor1-first=Serge|editor1-link=Serge Gut|editor2-last=Bellas|editor2-first=Jacqueline|title=Franz Liszt – Marie d'Agoult, Correspondance|language=french|location=Paris|publisher=Fayard|year=2001|isbn=2-213-61010-X}}</ref>
* ''Mémoires, souvenirs et journaux de la Comtesse d'Agoult'', Mercure de France, Paris, 1990.

==References==
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;Additional sources 
*[[Vincent Cronin|Cronin, Vincent]]. ''Four Women in Pursuit of an Ideal''. London: Collins, 1965; also published as ''The Romantic Way''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966.
*Stock-Morton, Phyllis. ''The life of Marie d'Agoult, alias Daniel Stern''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. {{ISBN|0-8018-6313-9}}.
*''[https://web.archive.org/web/20051111220254/http://www.ohiou.edu/~chastain/ac/agoult.htm Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions]''
* {{cite book|last=Walker|first=Alan|author-link=Alan Walker (musicologist)|title=Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years 1811–1847|publisher=[[Cornell University Press]]|year=1983|isbn=0-8014-9421-4}}
* Bolster, Richard. ''Marie d'Agoult : The Rebel Countess''. Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2000. 
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Marie d’Agoult}}
*{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Agoult, Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, Comtesse d' |volume= 1 |page= 381 |short= 1}}
* {{cite NIE|wstitle = Agoult, Marie Catherine Sophie de Flayigny, Comtesse d'}}
* {{Gutenberg author | id=32284| name=Daniel Stern}}
* {{Internet Archive author |name=Daniel Stern}}

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