Their names are Antigone, Sappho, Cleopatra, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Ophelia, Juliet, Lady Macbeth, Desdemona.
And still Atala, Esmeralda, Corinne, Mathilde, Lélia… up to Emma Bovary.
Fictional or historical, these heroines fascinated the romantic generation.
All are figures of sacrificed women.
All of them, in the history of modern painting and sculpture, have replaced Eve, the Virgin and the holy martyrs.
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In Paris, the charming Museum of Romantic Life, a house-workshop haunted in particular by the shadow of George Sand, offers a refuge to these strong souls, although destined to failure, who preferred to live passionately rather than confined to order. established social.
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These ladies never compromised, accepting the second if that was the price to pay for the first.
From then on, in the eighty paintings, drawings, engravings or sculptures brought together and which represent them here, what glorious deaths, what laudable deaths.
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