Hello! I hope you’er enjoying a wonderful bay😊I need your help on something.
Recently I’ve been trying to do some research about Adrienne and her family(mostly the Noailles) and the first thing I did was look into her memoir. And I came across a statement that Adrienne’s sister (Pauline) also had her own memoirs. So being interested, I looked up every were for that memoirs but couldn’t find anything…
Do you happen to know any information about this memoirs?
Hello @gg-20,
thank you, I had a most fantastic day and I hope you had as well.
Yes, Adrienne's sister Pauline wrote her own Memoirs and they are really worth reading. She herself lived a pretty interesting and moving live. But her Memoirs also give an insight into hers and Adrienne’s childhood, the time she spend with her sister Adrienne and members of the Noailles-La Fayette family in exile in Danish-Holstein, the marriage of her niece Anastasie (Adrienne's and La Fayette’s oldest daughter) and into the relationship the La Fayette’s had with Diane de Simiane ... there are many great aspects to the book. The only problem is, as you yourself already realized; Pauline's Memoirs are very hard to come-by. I actually have a copy of the book, but it is a German translation. Beside the German translation I have, there is also a second edition of the French original out there. As far as I can see, there are some aspects from other family members added to that version but I have never read this second edition in full.
I hope that you are comfortable enough with either French or German so that one of the books might help you. Should that not be the case, I would offer to translate passages of interest for you. :-)