Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… all of Europe and into Russia. Between 1835 and 1837, she published her Souvenirs , 4 three volumes interspersed with letters, reminiscences, stories of her travels, and a list of her paintings. 4 . Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Souvenirs. … again leave us with the impression of a woman genuinely perplexed by the charms of English sociability. We learn in a letter to her brother that at Tunbridge Wells, ‘the innumerable evening assemblies were tremendously tedious’ (678). As … the artist English visitors most called on in Paris. 18 13 . Volume 1 is entitled ’Lettres à la princesse Kourakine' (Letters to Princess Kurakina). The section in volume 3 on her travels in Switzerland, ‘Voyage en Suisse en 1808 et 1809’, …
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