Mother of the church : Sofia Svechina, the salon, and the politics of Catholicism in nineteenth-century Russia and France /
"Sofia Petrovna Svechina (1782-1857), better known as Madame Sophie Swetchine, was the hostess of a famous nineteenth-century Parisian salon. A Russian emigre, Svechina moved to France with her husband in 1816. She had recently converted to Roman Catholicism, and the salon she opened acquired a...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I ST. PETERSBURG
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER 1 The World in Flux: The French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Russian Nobility
- CHAPTER 2 In the Salons of St. Petersburg
- CHAPTER 3 At a Religious Crossroads
- CHAPTER 4 Becoming Catholic, Becoming Russian
- PART II: PARIS
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER 5 Making Paris Home: The Micro-Politics of Friendship
- CHAPTER 6 "Neutral Grounds in Paris": The Early Years of Svechina's Salon
- CHAPTER 7 Svechina and French Religious Politics, 1830-1848
- CHAPTER 8 The Kingdom of Saint-Dominique
- CHAPTER 9 Opportunities Lost
- CHAPTER 10 The New Crisis and the End
- Conclusion Writing the Modern Saint
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index