TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bakhmetyeva,Tatyana
TI  - Mother of the church: Sofia Svechina, the salon, and the politics of Catholicism in nineteenth-century Russia and France 
SN  - 9781609091989
AV  - BX4668 .M684 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - DeKalb
PB  - Northern Illinois University Press
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Catholic converts
KW  - Biography
KW  - Salons
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Saint Petersburg
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - "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 distinctly religious character. It quickly became one of the most popular salons in Paris and was a meeting place for the French intellectual Catholic elite and members of the Liberal Catholic movement. As a salonniere, Svechina developed close friendships with some of the most noted public figures in the Liberal Catholic movement. Her involvement with her guests went deeper than the typical salonniere's. She was a mentor, spiritual counselor, and intellectual advisor to many distinguished Parisian men and women, and her influence extended beyond the walls of her salon into the public world of politics and ideas. In this fascinating biography, Tatyana Bakhmetyeva seeks to understand the creative process that informed Svechina's life and examines her subject in the context of nineteenth-century thought and letters. It will appeal to educated readers interested in European and Russian history, the history of Catholicism, and women's history"--
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