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When John Singer Sargent unveiled Madame X -- his famous portrait of American beauty Virginie Gautreau -- at the 1884 Paris Salon, its subject's bold pose and provocative dress shocked the public and the critics, smashing Sargent's dreams of a Paris career. In this remarkable novel, Gioia Diliberto tells Virginie's story, drawing on the sketchy historical facts to re-create Virginie's tempestuous personality and the captivating milieu of nineteenth-century Paris. Born in New Orleans and raised on a lush plantation, Virginie fled to France during the Civil War, where she was absorbed into the fascinating and wealthy world of grand ballrooms, dressmakers' salons, and artists' ateliers. Even before Sargent painted her portrait, Virginie's reputation for promiscuity and showy self-display made her the subject of vicious Paris gossip.
Immersing the reader in Belle Epoque Paris, I Am Madame X is a compulsively readable and richly imagined novel illuminating the struggle between Virginie and Sargent over the outcome of a painting that changed their lives and affected the course of art history.
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William Holland
reviewed I am Madame X on October 19, 2009
I am Madame X
Although an entertaining read, this book's prose is average and there is no major lessons to be learned.
In this historical fiction account, Virginie Gautreau is a 19th century equivalent of today's version of model/actress socialite who is thrown by her social climbing mother into French society.
The few things I got out of this book are 1) Children need a stable environment to grow up properly 2) Exposing children to success at young age without having to work for it causes them to have a sense of entitlement and disaster stikes when you are on top at such a young age. 3)Any ones first sexual experience needs to be with someone they love in a LTR so they will understand and associate sex with love. 4)I do not consider marriage outside of love to be a marriage out all, I think marriage as an institution should institutionalize two people in love. I think the institution of marriage is cheapened if it is done for other causes such as saving face, solely resulting form an unwanted pregnancy, political/social alliance. In these cases, I definitley see a need for external dalliances like what happened in the past. But, I think it is very hypocritical to get married and say those vows and have external relations outside marriage.
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