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Frédéric Chopin’s reputation as one of the Great Romantics endures, but as Benita Eisler reveals in her elegant and elegiac biography, the man was more complicated than his iconic image. A classicist, conservative, and dandy who relished his conquest of Parisian society, the Polish émigré... read more

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On a sparkling Paris morning, Tuesday, October 30, 1849, crowds poured into the square in front of the Church of the Madeleine.

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  1. Benita Eisler (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
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Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0375708685
Page Count: 240

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