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Memoirs of Madame de La Tour du Pin I would recommend: Memoirs of Madame de La Tour du Pin by Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet Memoirs of Madame de La Tour du Pin.
Here are the first few lines of the review I wrote for it: Henrietta- Lucy Dillon was born in Paris in 1770.In 1787 she married the comte de Gouvernet who later became the marquis de la Tour du Pin. and she the marquise. She died in 1853 and so she experienced the Revolution, the Terror, the Empire and the Restoration, the 1830 and 1848 Revolution, the reign of louis Philippe and the advent of Louis-Napoleon. Her memoirs encompass the time span of her childhood until 1815, and were intended for her son, Aymar, the only one of her six children to survive. She had not intended them to be published, but when they were, in 1906, they were greeted with great acclaim and 16 editions were quickly published.
She saw life from the view point of an aristocrat, and as she herself wrote: 'I do not claim to be qualified to describe the state of society in France before the Revolution. It would be beyond my skill.'
It is a delightful book written by a delightful person.

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Here is an excellent biography about Beethoven. The book is written by a music writer and composer. He's also written several other well received music related biographies. This book does an excellent job tracing Beethoven's life and its relationship to his musical compositions. I augmented this book by listening to Beethoven's symphonies and all his sonatas while reading the book.

Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph