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Muhlstein was born in Paris in 1935.
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Anka Muhlstein
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During World World War II, she stayed in New York City before returning to France in 1945. Muhlstein ’s other works include Par les yeux de Marcel Proust (1971), Louisiana Femme Soleil (1976), Victoria (1978), Manhattan (1986), Reines éphémères, Mères perpétuelles (2001), Les Périls du Mariage (2004), and Napoléon à Moscou (2007). Her Garcon, un cent d’huîtres (Balzac"s Omelet in English), a study of the role of gastronomy in the novels of Balzac, was published in 2010.
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Muhlstein has been honored twice by the French Academy’s prize for history, for her biographies on her ancestor James de Rothschild, the founder of the French Rothschild bank, and the eighteenth century explorer Cavelier de Louisiana Salle. Muhlstein received the Goncourt prize in 1996 for biography for her work on the French writer Astolphe de Custine called A Taste for Freedom: The Life of Astolphe de Custine.
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