Kate Cambor
Oct 1 2009 7:00 pm
Oct 1 2009 8:30 pm
They were the children of France’s most celebrated men of
nineteenth-century letters and science, the celebrity heirs and
heiresses of their day. Their lives were the subject of scandal,
gossip, and fascination. Léon Daudet was the son of the popular writer
Alphonse Daudet. Jean-Baptiste Charcot was the son of the famed
neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, mentor to a young Sigmund Freud. And
Jeanne Hugo was the adored granddaughter of the immortal Victor Hugo.
As France readied herself for the dawn of a new century, these
childhood friends seemed poised for greatness.
In Gilded Youth: Three Lives in France's Belle Epoque,
Kate Cambor paints a portrait of a generation lost in upheaval. While
France weathered social unrest, violent crime, the birth of modern
psychology, and the dawn of World War I, these three young adults
experienced the disorientation of a generation forced to discover that
the faith in science and progress that had sustained their fathers had
failed them.
With masterful storytelling, Cambor captures the hopes and
disillusionments of those who were destined to see the golden world of
their childhood disappear -- and the universal challenges that emerge
as the dreams of youth collide with the realities of experience.
Kate Cambor received her Ph.D. in history from Yale University. She has written for The American ScholarThe American Prospect, among other periodicals. Cambor lives in New York City. This is her first book.
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