Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of the Baroness de Pontalba

Vella, Christina

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA, 1997

0807121444 / 9780807121443

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xiii, 426 p. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Born into wealth in New Orleans in 1795 and married into misery fifteen years later, the Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba led a life ripe for novelization. Intimate Enemies, however, is the spellbinding true account of this resilient woman's life-and the three men who most affected its course. Immediately upon marrying Celestin de Pontalba, Micaela was removed to his family's estate in France. For twenty years her father-in-law attempted to drive her to abandon Celestin; by law he could then seize control of her fortune. He tried dozens of strategies, including at one point instructing the entire Pontalba household to pretend she was invisible. Finally, in 1834, the despairing elder Pontalba trapped Micaela in a bedroom and shot her four times before turning his gun on himself. Miraculously, she survived. Five years later, after securing both a separation from Celestin and legal power over her wealth, Micaela focused her attention on building, following in the footsteps of her late, illustrious father, Andres Almonester. Her Parisian mansion, the Hotel Pontalba, is today the official residence of the American embassy in France, and her Pontalba Buildings, which flank Jackson Square in New Orleans, form together with her father's St. Louis Cathedral, Presbytere, and Cabildo one of the loveliest architectural complexes in America. As for Celestin, he eventually suffered a total physical and mental breakdown and begged Micaela to return. She did so, caring for him for twenty-three years until her death in 1874. In Intimate Enemies, Christina Vella embroiders the compelling story of the Almonester-Pontalba alliance against a richly woven background of the events and cultures of two centuries and two vivid societies. She provides a window into the yellow fever epidemics that raged in New Orleans; the rebuilding of Paris, the Paris Commune uprising, and the Second Empire of Napoleon III, European ideas of power, class, money, marriage, and love during the baroness'. Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Page 119-120 creased.…

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Titel
Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of the Baroness de Pontalba
Autor
Vella, Christina
Verlag
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA
Erscheinungsjahr
1997
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0807121444
ISBN-13
9780807121443
Auflage
Reprint. Second printing.

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