Caroline Jaubert

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Caroline Jaubert , née d'Alton or d'Alton-Shée (born June 6, 1803 in Koblenz , † December 13, 1882 in Paris ) was a French writer and salonnière .

She was the daughter of Jacques-Wulfran, Count von Alton (1773-1815) and Françoise Shée (1779-1832). At the time of her birth, Koblenz belonged to France and was the capital of the Département de Rhin-et-Moselle . Her younger brother was the politician Edmond d'Alton-Shée de Lignières (1810–1874), who temporarily belonged to the French House of Lords .

At the age of 15 she married the lawyer Louis-Charles-Maximilien (Maxime) Jaubert (1781–1865), who was appointed to the Court of Cassation in 1829 . He was the brother of the orientalist Pierre Amédée Jaubert. The couple's daughter was Adine Jaubert (1820-1892).

During the July Monarchy , Caroline Jaubert took an active part in the capital's social life, which was largely played out in salons . In doing so, she came into closer contact with well-known writers. In 1835, Alfred de Musset fell in love with her, who gave him the nickname "prince Phosphore de cœur volant" (Prince Phosphorus of the Unsteady Heart). A brief, violent affair was followed by a longstanding bond, whereby de Musset liked to call her his “marraine” (godmother).

Carline Jaubert's grave in the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris

She also met Heinrich Heine in 1835 . After initial skepticism, she became an esteemed conversational and correspondence partner for him for the next two decades. From the start, Heine was fascinated by her apparently quite small foot. For his last visit with her before retiring to the Maratzen Crypt in the spring of 1848, he let himself be carried up the stairs to her apartment on the back of a servant. In the summer of 1848 she had her brother Edmond intervene in French government circles for the resumption of the state pension for Heine, which was canceled after the February Revolution in 1848 , but without success. Her husband Maxime became Heine's executor through her mediation.

Towards the end of her life, when most of the acquaintances from her time as Salonnière had already died, she published parts of her memories and correspondence in book form.

She died on December 13, 1882 in her house at 49 rue de la Bruyère and is buried in the Montmartre cemetery.

Works

  • Souvenirs de Mme C. Jaubert, lettres et correspondances: Berryer, 1847 et 1848, Alfred de Musset, Pierre Lanfrey, Henri Heine . Hetzel, Paris 1881. Online at Gallica
  • Heinrich Heine: Memories from the last 20 years of his life (1835–1855). Authorized translation by Luise Walter . Soudier, Paris and Leipzig 1884.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul de Musset : Biography de Alfred de Musset . Paris, Charpentier 1888, p. 170. Full text on Wikisource
  2. ↑ Léon Séché: La marraine d'Alfred de Musset, Madame Caroline Jaubert d'après the documents inédits : par Léon Séché, in La Revue de Paris , November 1906. read online on Gallica ; André Gayot: La Marraine d'Alfred de Musset: Caroline Jaubert , in: La Nouvelle revue , March 1911. Read online at Gallica ; Loïc Chotard: Confession à la marraine: les lettres d'Alfred de Musset à Caroline Jaubert , in: Difficulté d'être et mal du siècle dans les correspondances et journaux intimes de la première moitié du XIXe siècle , textes réunis et présentés par Simone Bernard -Griffiths, Saint-Genouph 1998, pp. 137-146.
  3. ^ Edda Ziegler: Heinrich Heine. The poet and the women . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf and Zurich 2005, p. 155. Heine also used the motif of the little foot in his prose. In the novella Florentine Nights , the protagonist Maximilian relates: "... one evening after we had dinner with each other in the house of a tall lady who has the smallest foot in Paris and became very cheerful ..." DHA, Volume 5, p 212. De Musset put it similarly in his short piece Un Souper chez Mademoiselle Rachel in 1839 : "... la femme de tout Paris qui a le plus grand esprit et le plus petit pied." (Quoted from the freeware version of the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lisieux )
  4. ↑ Jan-Christoph Hauschild / Michael Werner: Heinrich Heine. "The purpose of life is life itself." A biography. Corrected edition, Ullstein, Berlin 1999, p. 471.
  5. ↑ Christoph Bartscherer: Heinrich Heine and the women . Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2006, p. 100. Cf. C. Jaubert's letters to Heine of August 31 and September 18, 1848, HSA, Volume 26, pp. 227 and 228.
  6. ↑ Testament of 1851, read German translation at Zeno.org
personal data
SURNAME Jaubert, Caroline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES d'Alton-Shée, Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and salonnière
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1882
Place of death Paris