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...

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...

Calmann-Lévy (1888) Figures de femmes : Madame du Deffand, Madame d'Épinay, Madame Necker, Madame de Beaumont, Madame Récamier, etc., Calmann-Lévy (1889)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

chapters on Madame du Deffand, Mademoiselle de Lespinasse, Madame Geoffrin, Madame d'Épinay, Madame Roland, Madame Necker, Madame de Staël, Madame Récamier...

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....

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...

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...

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...

taught at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples. Her book, Madame du Deffand e il suo mondo (1982) was translated into English by Teresa Waugh;...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Guillaume Ducray-Duminil (1807) The Unpublished Correspondence of Madame du Deffand (1810) Messiah, by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (with Mary Collyer)...

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...

to both countries were recalled and Stormont returned to England. Madame du Deffand, lamented him as a friend and frequenter of her celebrated parties...

Wilmarth S., editor (1937). Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Madame du Deffand. Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, vol. 6. François-Charles...

the letters of Madame du Deffand to Horace Walpole, written between 1766 and 1780, which she annotated herself, as well as those de Deffand wrote to Voltaire...

was given the nickname of Huber-Voltaire. Voltaire wrote in 1772 to Madame du Deffand: "Since you have seen Monsieur Huber, he will do your portrait; he...

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...

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....

furniture, the Mobilier Diderot in 1986 and the Mobilier Du Deffand in 1989, in homage to Madame du Deffand, the famous 18th-century letter-writer who, three...