Download or read book The Life of Madame Necker written by Sonja Boon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madame Necker occupies a unique position in French social and cultural history. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly corporeal nature of Madame Necker’s life – her debilitating, decades-long psychic and somatic suffering and subsequent curious death.