Dino, Dorothée, duchesse deVerified

The Duchesse de Dino's memoirs offer an intimate, wry perspective on European diplomacy and aristocratic life from someone at the center of power yet perpetually sidelined by her gender. Her observations reveal courtly intrigue with sharp intelligence and barely concealed resentment.

Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino, later Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan, covering 1841 to 1850. The first entries are written at Rochecotte and mix family life and personal feeling with comments on French politics and Parisian society.