Madame TASTU or “The Forgotten Muse”

This is a biography.
Like his hometown, at the confluence of the Moselle and Seille rivers, Longwy and Metz united "in this most cheerful region of Lorraine" to found the family cradle of Amable Tastu. His parents married on March 31, 1794; his father was the general manager of military supplies for the Army of the North. His mother, Jeanne Amable Bouchotte, was also from Lorraine, born on March 21, 1768.
Amable Sabine Cazimir Voïart was born on 13 Fructidor Year III, that is to say on August 30, 1795.
Amable learned to read and write while cultivating her taste for the arts, which allowed her to soften the yoke of the austere education that religion demanded of children born in her social environment...
Amable's fame quickly spread beyond the limited circle of her family and friends, so much so that she finally had to accept the status of woman of letters, which her modesty had always refused.
Her admirers, among whom were not only her husband, but also Madame Dufrénoy, Madame de Genlis, Madame Desbordes-Valmore, but also Béranger, Hugo, Lamartine, Chateaubriand and Sainte-Beuve!
Amable, deeply liberal, maintained privileged relations with the leader of this party who was none other than Lafayette.
Amable had a son, Eugène, who had a brilliant secondary and university education, to the point of obtaining a law degree in 1837. He made a career in diplomacy.
Her husband, Joseph, died on January 2, 1849. Amable, whose grief was softened by the love she felt for her son, decided to join him in Cyprus in 1850, when he was consul in Larnaca. She traveled according to her son's appointments from Baghdad to Alexandria.
Eugène and Amable were delighted to return to the pretty house they had bought in Palaiseau at 248 rue de Paris...
Amable died quietly on January 11, 1885, and was buried in Paris in private.

Format: 15cm x 21cm
230 pages
Author: Catherine POUSSARD-JOLY
Year: 1995
ISBN: 2-9506603-2-0
Price: €10