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Love in Five Temperaments

Pages
337
Published
1961
Language
English

Synopsis

Explore the lives of five extraordinary women who defied convention in the glittering yet ruthless 18th-century Parisian grand monde. From an unfrocked nun to a Circassian slave girl, these figures navigated a society driven by greed, ambition, and intellectualism. Discover their remarkable independence of character and judgment as they shaped their destinies amidst unpropitious circumstances.

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About the author

J
J. Christopher Herold

Jean Christopher Herold was a Czech American university press editor and author from the 1940s to 1960s. While editing at Columbia University Press and Stanford University Press, Herold primarily wrote French history books on Napoleon Bonaparte while also covering Joan of Arc and Madame de Staël. Herold won the 1959 National Book Award for Nonfiction for his book, Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960.