Shinedown - The Dream

The faster development of their romance was prevented by Liszt’s communication with people whose interest in scale was able to compete with feelings for “beloved Marie”. Continuing to engage in self-education and reading a huge amount of various literature (it always saved from heart ailments), he finally met personally with Alfons Lamartine and Abbot Felicite de Lamenne. The latter even invited him to stay at his estate La Chênaie in Brittany. Liszt went there at the very beginning of autumn, perhaps having decided for the last time in the literal sense to escape from love.