Letters from Madame Victoire Gounod to her son (1839-1842)

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12/01/2018

‘Ta mère et meilleure amie’, ‘Ta mère et soi-disantamie’, ‘Amie et mere’... this is how Madame Victoire Gounod signed the many letters she sent to her son Charles during his stay at the Villa Medici in Rome. Between 8 December 1839 and 7 May 1842 she wrote to him just over a hundred times, occasionally enclosing letters from other people, particularly his older brother, Urbain.

CD-Book Charles Gounod. Cantates et musique sacrée (2018). Translation: Mary Pardoe.