Mother of the Church: Sofia Svechina, the Salon, and the Politics of Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Russia and France

by Tatyana V. Bakhmetyeva

Sofia Petrovna Svechina (1782-1857), better known as Madame Sophie Swetchine, was the hostess of a famous nineteenth-century Parisian salon. A Russian migr , Svechina moved to France with her husband in 1816. She had recently converted to Roman Catholicism, and the salon she opened acquired a distinctly religious character. It quickly became one of the most popular salons in Paris and was a meeting place for the French intellectual Catholic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875807372
• ISBN13: 9780875807379
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher