HERMIONE ASACHI-QUINET: UNE FEMME À LA QUÊTE DE LA PATRIE DE LA LIBERTÉ
HERMIONE ASACHI-QUINET: A WOMAN IN SEARCH OF THE HOMELAND OF FREEDOM

Summary/Abstract: Considered one of the most intelligent and cultured Romanian of her time, Hermione, the adopted daughter of Gheorghe Asachi, took an active part in the literary life of the first half of the 19th century in Moldavia. Our article follows the sinuous and at the same time exemplary trajectory of this fascinating woman who leaves the geographical periphery of Romanity to experience the singular effervescence of French intellectual life, as an auditor at the Collège de France; then as the wife of Edgar Quinet, Hermione will face the difficulties of a second exile, this time imposed. The name of Hermione Asachi-Quinet remains linked to the French personalities who determined the spiritual formation of the Romanian intellectuals of the 19th century.

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