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Claire de Duras

1777–1828 1 volume Literary Classics
Ourika — cover

The life

Claire de Duras was a French novelist whose father was guillotined in the Terror and who fled to Martinique and London before returning to run one of the great salons of the Restoration. Ourika (1823), told by a Senegalese woman raised in an aristocratic French household, is among the earliest European novels to take a Black woman's inner life as its subject.

Paintings from these volumes
The Grande Galerie of the Louvre, between 1794 and 1796
The Grande Galerie of the Louvre, between 1794 and 1796 Hubert Robert
Vue imaginaire de la grande galerie du Louvre en ruine
Vue imaginaire de la grande galerie du Louvre en ruine Hubert Robert
Les deux amies
Les deux amies Marguerite Gérard
In the Courtyard of the Customs-House
In the Courtyard of the Customs-House Nicolas Bernard Lépicié
Tennis Court Oath
Tennis Court Oath Jacques-Louis David
Regresso da Boda (c. 1801-1815) - Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (MNAA, inv. 1695 Pint)
Regresso da Boda (c. 1801-1815) - Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (MNAA, inv. 1695 Pint) Nicolas-Antoine Taunay
In the library

1 volume by Duras

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Ourika — cover
Literary Classics

Ourika

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