Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (25 September 1696 – 23 September 1780) was a French hostess and patron of the arts. Madame du Deffand was born at the Château...
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Freedom: The life of Astolphe de Custine (2000), Benedetta Craveri's Madame Du Deffand and Her World (1994), and The Travels of Marco Polo (1984). In 1980...
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French femme de lettres and salon hostess. Nicknamed "l'idole" by Madame du Deffand, she was a lady in waiting to the Duchess of Chartres and a mistress...
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Enlightenment. Madame du Deffand was an upper class French woman, who held weekly salons in Paris. Known for her intelligence and cynicism, Deffand became friends...
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Calmann-Lévy (1888) Figures de femmes : Madame du Deffand, Madame d'Épinay, Madame Necker, Madame de Beaumont, Madame Récamier, etc., Calmann-Lévy (1889)...
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Adélaïde of France (redirect from Marie Adélaïde, Madame Quatrième)
smallpox in late May was regretted by the friends of the ex-ministers, Madame du Deffand commenting: "The avenging angel has shielded his sword. We shall again...
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Warsaw: Czytelnik. Perey, Lucien (1893). Le président Hénault et Madame du Deffand. La cour du régent, la cour de Louis XV et de Marie Leczinska (in French)...
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borrowed from Diderot. Madame du Deffand felt that Helvétius had raised such a storm by saying openly what everyone thought in secret. Madame de Graffigny claimed...
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Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine (section Madame Dupin)
of Lévis-Mirepoix, the Baroness Hervey and the Princess of Monaco. Madame du Deffand was also received, although perhaps she was the only one who spoke...
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ISBN 978-1-84371-182-7. Horace Walpole (1939). Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Madame Du Deffand and Wiart. Yale University Press. pp. 239–240....
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chapters on Madame du Deffand, Mademoiselle de Lespinasse, Madame Geoffrin, Madame d'Épinay, Madame Roland, Madame Necker, Madame de Staël, Madame Récamier...
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salons in Paris, such as those hosted by Mesdames de Tencin, Geoffrin, du Deffand and others. Within these salons she crossed paths with principal figures...
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Madame du Deffand, who recognized her niece's extraordinary gifts, persuaded her to come to Paris as her companion. Julie moved into Mme du Deffand's...
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viscount was the British ambassador in Paris, where his close friend Madame du Deffand commented that his new wife "is pretty, she holds herself badly, and...
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dans les années 1766 à 1780; auquelles sont jointes des lettres de madame Du Deffand à Voltaire, écrites dans les années 1775: publiées d'après les originaux...
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fights. In an effort to restore domestic harmony, Cosimo III sent for Madame du Deffand, Marguerite Louise's childhood governess who had sided with the Grand...
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proclaimed, and attended, by a fat and favourite little dog, the legacy of Madame du Deffand; the dog and favourite squirrel partook of his breakfast. He generally...
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Guillaume Ducray-Duminil (1807) The Unpublished Correspondence of Madame du Deffand (1810) Messiah, by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (with Mary Collyer)...
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Walpole's letters; he squired her in France and introduced her to Madame du Deffand, who in turn sponsored her in Parisian high society. After spending...
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memoirs and novels. Voltaire referred to her fame in a 1752 letter to Madame du Deffand as an illustration of the shallowness of the epoch of Louis XV in...
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over time, and in part due to his vibrant personality, he befriended Madame du Deffand, whose powerful salon ultimately allowed him to enter the public eye...
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to both countries were recalled and Stormont returned to England. Madame du Deffand, lamented him as a friend and frequenter of her celebrated parties...
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Wilmarth S., editor (1937). Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Madame du Deffand. Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, vol. 6. François-Charles...
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English antiquary, bibliographer and poet (died 1761) September 25 – Madame du Deffand, French literary hostess (died 1780) October 13 – John Hervey, 2nd...
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Restoration of Charles II. to the French Revolution. By the Editor of Madame du Deffand's Letters". Southern Journal (XII). Charleston: A. E. Miller: 395....
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2018–20 CR4 - La Repubblica delle Donne Self 2020 L'ultima de' Medici Madame Du Deffand 2021 Ciao maschio Self 2022 Sanremo Music Festival 2022 Self Co-host...
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Marie Thérèse Geoffrin (redirect from Madame Geoffrin)
salonnières. Another salonnière, the Marquise du Deffand, can be said to have competed against Madame Geoffrin for the friendship of many prominent men...
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Guarnaschelli, Una piccola pietra Essay: Benedetta Craveri, Madame Du Deffand e il suo mondo (Madame du Deffand and Her World) Special Award: Luca Canali, Autobiografia...
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following women, by chapter: Cornelia, Aurelia, Porcia, Servilia, Madame du Deffand, Elizabeth Barrett Browning Christine de Pizan, Sonya Kovalevsky,...
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Suzanne Curchod (redirect from Madame Necker)
Rodet Geoffrin and Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand. It was at one of Madame Necker's dinners that a group of men of letters first proposed...
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