Rage and Fire

Acclaimed novelist and essayist Francine du Plessix Gray paints a spirited portrait of a woman who defied the rules and expectations of a misogynistic society to become one of its preeminent writers, as well as the intimate of such great literary figures as Flaubert, Hugo, and Musset.

Most English-language readers are familiar with the notoriously tempestuous and beautiful Louise Colet as Gustave Flaubert's only love and his model for Emma Bovary. But in addition, she was, at the summit of her career, one of the most famous female literary figures in France. In describing Colet's ascent to literary fame, Gray draws on Louise Colet's recently discovered journals to capture the spirit of this fiercely independent woman. She also illuminates in vivid detail the intellectual, social, and sexual mores of nineteenth-century France.

Written in a richly textured, novelistic style, Rage and Fire brilliantly captures the complexities of a woman who ascended to fame and literary respectability through her talent and a willful spirit that refused to acknowledge the wor

Francine du Plessix Gray is the author of Lovers and Tyrants and Soviet Women, among other books, and contributes regularly to The New Yorker. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, the painter Cleve Gray.

Prologue	p. 13
Provence	p. 17
To Paris!: P.S. Servanes, 1993	p. 36
Her Conquest of the Capital: P.S. The Trials of Mid-Nineteenth-Century French Women	p. 51
Penserosa	p. 76
Three Great Friendships: 1842-1846	p. 95
Lui: P.S. Male Bonding and the Carnal Act	p. 115
Love Letters	p. 132
Tempests	p. 154
The Years Without Him: 1848-1851	p. 168
Flaubert in Egypt, and Back	p. 186
Amor Nel Cor: P.S. The Tribulations of Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (Or, the Difficulties of Being Louise Colet)	p. 199
Fantasio and Stello	p. 223
Stello and Olympio	p. 248
Emma and Louise	p. 272
Attending a Revolution	p. 288
Increasing Solitude	p. 303
Taking on the Vatican: P.S. On Louise's Traces: The Lost Suitcase, and a Few Other Confusions	p. 320
Dueling with Phantoms	p. 339
The Last Barricades	p. 357
Cosi Fan Tutte	p. 377
Concerning Louise	p. 385
Notes	p. 387
Bibliography	p. 411
Index	p. 417
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