Project Gutenberg 2009-03-20 Public domain in the USA. 42 Saint-Elme, Ida 1778 1845 St-Elme, Ida Jonghe, Elzélina van Aylde Tolstoy van Aylde-Jonghe, Elzélina Aylde Jonghe, Elzélina van Van Aylde Jonghe, Elzélina Jonghe, Elzelina van Aylde Mémoires d'une contemporaine. Tome 1 Souvenirs d'une femme sur les principaux personnages de la République, du Consulat, de l'Empire, etc... Produced by Mireille Harmelin, Eric Vautier and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at http://dp.rastko.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) "Mémoires d'une contemporaine. Tome 1" by Ida Saint-Elme is a memoir written in the early 19th century. The book recounts the author's personal experiences and observations of significant historical figures during pivotal events in French history, such as the Republic, the Consulate, and the Empire. The narrative is centered around the life of Ida, who reflects on her journey through a tumultuous period characterized by personal and political upheaval. At the start of the memoir, the author introduces herself and establishes that her life has intertwined with many notable personalities throughout the transformative years in France following the Revolution. She details her origins, including the legacy of her father, the highlights of her upbringing, and the heartbreak stemming from his mortality. Additionally, she unfolds the circumstance of her first encounter with love, her marriage, and the subsequent sharing of political opinions with her husband, which foreshadows the challenges and adventures that will be explored later in her life. The opening chapters set a rich backdrop of personal history against the larger canvas of French society, indicating a blend of intimate storytelling with broader historical commentary. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr France -- History -- 1789-1815 DC Text FR Biographie, Mémoires, Journal intime, Correspondance Browsing: Biographies Browsing: History - European Browsing: History - General 515980 515723 2024-09-12T08:31:45.166919 2023-09-12T11:45:19.030774 text/html text/html 515973 515716 2024-09-12T08:31:45.386913 2023-09-12T11:45:19.177753 text/html text/html 250434 2024-09-12T08:31:51.879867 application/epub+zip 258450 2024-09-12T08:31:47.095892 application/epub+zip 258450 2024-09-12T08:31:46.025901 application/epub+zip 504388 2024-09-12T08:31:56.087889 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 467788 2024-09-12T08:31:51.264883 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 487953 2022-09-13T08:35:42.416575 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 489256 2024-09-12T08:31:44.827901 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 489272 2021-01-04T21:40:42 text/plain; charset=utf-8 182918 2021-01-04T21:40:42 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 476060 2021-01-04T21:40:41 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 181065 2021-01-04T21:40:42 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 19685 2024-09-12T08:31:56.217823 application/rdf+xml 16180 2024-09-12T08:31:46.535872 image/jpeg 3763 2024-09-12T08:31:46.363872 image/jpeg 248766 2024-09-12T08:31:45.435886 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog