Léontine Lippmann

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Madame Arman de Caillavet

Léontine Lippmann (* 14. June 1844 , † 12. January 1910 in Paris ), also known as Madame Arman de Caillavet and eventually became known as Madame de Caivallet was a Parisian Salonnière .

During the Third Republic she ran a glamorous literary salon in Paris. She was close friends with Anatole France , as whose muse she is sometimes referred to. She is considered a role model for the literary figure of Madame Verdurin and her salon in Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time .

Life

Léontine Lippmann was born into a Jewish banking family. She was married to Albert Arman from Bordeaux. Arman was a member of parliament, shipbuilder, outfitter for the imperial navy, ship supplier for the Russian tsar and well known to the imperial couple Napoleon III. and Eugénie . The couple's church wedding took place in the Tuileries palace chapel in the presence of the imperial couple. Albert Arman later added the name of a castle on his winery near Capian to his last name. They were now called Arman de Cavaillat. The only son Gaston Arman de Caillavet was a writer and director of a small Parisian revue theater. he married Jeanne Pouquet in May 1893. The couple had a daughter, Simone Arman de Caivallet, who in 1926 married André Maurois , one of Marcel Proust's biographers , for the second time .

Albert Arman owned a yacht with which the couple made trips with guests to Brittany, the Netherlands and England, and later to the Mediterranean Sea to Italy, Greece, Corsica and Sardinia.

Léontine Lippmann was a beautiful and educated woman - she spoke four languages ​​- and attended Madame Aubernon's (Lydie de Nerville, 1825–1899) salon for a few years. She had met Anatole France around 1866 in Madame Aubernon's salon. A stormy love affair flared up between the two, marked by jealousy on both sides, tolerated by Léontine's husband, but which led to the separation of France and his wife in 1891. Anatol France moved into a bachelor's apartment near the salon, but spent most of the day and evenings with Léontine. In 1893, the France couple divorced.

During a stay on her estate in Capian in the fall of 1909, she fell seriously ill and was brought back to Paris, where she died on January 12, 1910. She was buried in the Montmartre cemetery .

The salon

12 avenue Hoche in Paris

Madame de Caivallet had her own salon since 1868. Every Sunday she received a small group of selected writers and intellectuals for a dinner at 12 avenue Hoche near today's Place Charles de Gaulle . Politicians, journalists, actors and writers met there on Wednesdays, but only a few musicians. Many of his supporters gathered here during the Dreyfus affair .

The guests

Access to her salon was exclusive. Robert de Montesquiou, for example, tried for years to get an invitation. The regular guests ( Habitués ) included Anatole France, the novelist Alexandre Dumas , the philosopher and professor at the Sorbonne Victor Brochard, member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques , the fashion doctor Professor Samuel Pozzi, the poet Charles Leconte de Lisle and José-Maria de Heredia, (1842–1905) poet and member of the Académie and the historian and orientalist Ernest Renan , also a member of the Académie.

Guests of her Wednesday invitations were u. a. the Italian art collector and photographer Count Giuseppe Primoli (1851–1921), the Duc Jean Decazes , the Prince and Princess Bibesco , Baron and Baroness Rothschild , Robert de Montesquiou , Anna de Noailles , Louis Barthou , Marie and Pierre Curie , Marcel Proust , J.-H. Rosny one of the early science fiction authors, Gabriel Hanotaux , Marcel Prévost , Pierre Loti , Maurice Barrès , the novelist Marcelle Tinayre (1870–1958), Sarah Bernhardt , the actress Réjane (1856–1920), Fernand Gregh , the Abbé Mugnier , the actors Lucien Guitry, Antoine Bourdelle , Mihály von Munkácsy , Jacques Rivière , Georg Brandes , Jules Lemaître , Théophile Moreux , Colette and her first husband, the music critic Henry Gauthier-Villars, called Willy (1859–1931), Marcel Schwob , Robert de Flers , Charles Rappoport , the novelist Michel Corday (1869–1937), the journalist and Dreyfusian Joseph Reinach (1856–1921), Tristan Bernard , the dancer Loïe Fuller , Georges Clemenceau , Paul-Louis Couchoud (1879–1959), doctor-philosopher and close friend of Anatole France, the politicians Aristide Briand , Léon Blum , Jean Jaurès , Pierre Mille , Charles Maurras and Raymond Poincaré .

Letters

  • Quelques lettres inédites d'Anatole France et de M; Arman de Caillavet à Charles Maurras. Présentées par Max Ph. Delatte. Publ. Par la Société Anatole France. Paris: Société Anatole France, 1972.
  • Lettres intimate: Le secret du 'Lys rouge'. Anatole France and Mme de Caillavet. Présentées et annotées by Jacques Suffel. Paris: Nizet 1984.

literature

Translation into German by Christian Enzensberger and Ilse Wodtke. 1962, 1968.
  •  Jeanne Maurice Pouquet: Le Salon de Madame Arman de Caillavet . Ses amis Anatole France, comdt. Rivière, Jules Lemaître, Pierre Loti, Marcel Proust etc. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1926,
  • Emily Bisky, Emily Braun: Jewish women and their Salons - The Power of Conversation . Yale University Press 2005. ISBN 978-0-300-10385-4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Painter. Vol. 1, 1962, p. 111.
  2. ^ Lydie Aubernon de Nerville, Modèle du personnage de Madame Verdurin de Proust. Retrieved February 8, 2015
  3. ^ Painter. Vol. 1, 1962. pp. 112-113.
personal data
SURNAME Lippmann, Léontine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caillavet, Madame Arman de; Caivallet, Madame de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Parisian salonnière
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1844
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1910
Place of death Paris