# Frederick Chopin

Author: Pourtalès, Guy de, comte, 1881-1941; Bayly, Charles, Jr., 1897-1954 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76904

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Frederick+Chopin+Pourtal%C3%A8s&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

“An angel, fair of face as a tall, sad woman...” This portrait of Chopin, penned by a hand he loved, should stand as the frontispiece of this study. Naïve painters in the Middle Ages—who also came to pray for pardon—hung their expiatory offerings in the shadows of the cathedrals. This once caressing woman’s hand, now dead, surely yielded, while writing these words, to the inner necessity of knowing absolution. It added: “There was never anything more pure and at the same time more exalted than his thoughts...”

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part Two](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/21/index.md)
- [did. On the 7th of December, at the Théâtre Italien, he appeared at a](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part One](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-76904/chapters/19/index.md)