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Agoult, Marie de Flavigny, Comtesse d', pseudonym Daniel Stern 1805-76
French writer
Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, of French parentage, and educated at a convent in Paris, and a notable beauty, she married the Comte d'Agoult in 1827, but in 1834 left him for Franz Liszt. She wrote novels such as Nélida (1845) under the pseudonym Daniel Stern. A close friend of George Sand, she held a salon in Paris and wrote on numerous subjects, including Esquisses morales (1849), Histoire de la révolution de 1848 (1850), Dante et G?the (1866), and a play, Jeanne d'Arc (1857). Their daughter Cosima married Richard Wagner.
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