Abstract: The comtesse de Boigne was drawn by revolutionary upheavals to a life she would not have had if society had remained stable and time passed smoothly. Between her personal time, marked by a tragic social decline with her unhappy marriage, and that of History, altered by the Revolution, choices had to be made. Politics and writing helped her kill passing time. Prefiguring Proust, who hailed the publication of her Mémoires in 1906, she attempted to regain the time which was slipping away.
