- Performer Name:
- Madame de Staël
- Performance Venue:
- Paris
- Performance Date:
- Author:
- Shelley, Mary
- Date Written:
- Language:
- English
- Publication Title:
- French Lives
- Article Title:
- Madame de Staël
- Page Numbers:
- 3:465
- Additional Info:
- French Lives, ed. Clarissa Campbell Orr, vol. 3 of Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings, 4 vols, gen. ed. Nora Crook.
- Publisher:
- Pickering & Chatto
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Date Published:
- 2002
Text:
[465] [quoting Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert]: When she sang, she extemporised the words of her song; the celestial brightness of composition animated her face, and held the audience in serious attention; at once astonished and delighted, we knew not which most to admire, her facility or perfection.
[Mary Shelley's words]: There were many people in Paris, who, of course, were willing to turn the pretensions of the young and brilliant improvisatrice into ridicule
Notes:
- Collected by:
- AE