biography
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Agoult, Marie de Flavigny, comtesse d' (Countess of)
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pseudonym Daniel Stern
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pronunciation:
[agoo]
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| lived:
| (1805–76)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Frankfurt, WC Germany, the daughter of the French emigré Comte de Flavigny. She was educated at a convent in Paris. She married Comte d'Agoult in 1827, but in 1834 left him for Franz Liszt, by whom she had three daughters; the youngest, Cosima, married first Hans von Bülow, and later Wagner. A close friend of George Sand, she held a famous salon in Paris, and wrote on numerous subjects. |
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