d'Agoult

She was born in an Italian love-nest beside Lake Como in 1837 to the Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt and his married Parisian mistress, the Countess Marie d'Agoult.

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George Sand (1804 – 1876) and Marie d'Agoult (1805 – 1876) have been for a century and a half objects of curiosity more for their colorful lives than for their writings.

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Marie d'Agoult caused a scandal in 1835 by eloping with Franz Liszt and bore him three children (one of whom, Cosima, married Richard Wagner and became his muse).

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But neither Sand nor d'Agoult was content with notoriety.

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Great was the indignation of the fair countess at this double desertion; and when they returned to Paris, Madame d'Agoult went to Georges Sand, and immediately challenged the great writer to a duel, the weapons to be finger-nails, etc.

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Opera House, Dresden, 63; life in Paris, 71, 183; visit to Bonn, 63; correspondence with Madame d'Agoult, 117

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The composer's professional intercourse with Hans von Bülow led to an intimacy with the latter's wife, Cosima von Bülow, who was an illegitimate daughter of Liszt by the Countess d'Agoult.

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She had given up her "poet's garret," and occupied for a while a suite of rooms in the Hôtel de France, where resided also Madame d'Agoult.

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He declined the suggestion, and sent word of her doings to Madame d'Agoult:

The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham

An inevitable result of Liszt's dalliance with his new Calypso in the various capitals that they visited together during the months that followed was to shatter the relations that had existed for years between himself and Madame d'Agoult.

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