Agoult, MARIE DE FLAVIGNY, COMTESSE D'

Agoult, MARIE DE FLAVIGNY, COMTESSE D', a French author known under the literary pseudonym of 'Daniel Stern,' was born at Frankfort, 31st December 1805, and educated at a convent in Paris. She married the Comte d'Agoult in 1827, but left him and formed a connection with Liszt. To him she bore three daughters, the eldest of whom married Emile Ollivier; the second, Guy de Charnacé; and the third, first Hans von Bülow, and afterwards Richard Wagner. Amongst 'Daniel Stern's' works are the half-autobiographic romance Nélida, Lettres Républicaines, Histoire de la Révolution de 1848, and Mes Souvenirs, 1806-33. Her Esquisses morales (1849) is admittedly her best work. She died in Paris, 5th March 1876.