Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, Baroness of Saint-Martin-de-Ré /ɡəˈræn də ˌtɒnˈsæn/ (27 April 1682 – 4 December 1749) was a French salonist and...
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Tencin (French pronunciation: [tɑ̃sɛ̃]) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. It is part of the Grenoble urban unit (agglomeration)...
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Pierre-Paul Guérin de Tencin (Grenoble, 22 August 1679 – 2 March 1758), French ecclesiastic, was archbishop of Embrun and Lyon, and a cardinal. His sister...
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His mother was Marie-Angélique de Tencin, sister of cardinal Pierre Guérin de Tencin and Claudine Guérin de Tencin, mother of d'Alembert. His brother...
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the home of Madame de Tencin." After Madame de Tencin's death in December 1749, Madame Geoffrin inherited many of de Tencin's former guests, thereby...
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Rohan-Polduc in 1776 out of the collections of the knight Louis Guérin de Tencin. It has been a legal deposit library since 1925, and it has the largest...
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playwright Marivaux, the philosopher Condillac, as well as the Marquise de Tencin and the Marquise du Deffand. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was Dupin's secretary...
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of Luçon from 1723 until his death. He attended the salon of Madame de Tencin; he was elected to the Académie française on 21 February 1732, without having...
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Pierre Guérin de Tencin (1679–1758), French ecclesiastic, archbishop of Embrun and Lyon and a cardinal. Claudine Guérin de Tencin (1682–1749) a French...
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also the lover of the famous courtesan and novelist Claudine Guérin de Tencin, and of Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Duchess of Berry, elder daughter...
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conclavists have later been elevated to the cardinalate, such as Pierre Guérin de Tencin (1721), Niccolò Coscia (1724), Christoph Anton Migazzi (1740), and Carlo...
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Soleymieu La Sône Sonnay Sousville Succieu La Sure en Chartreuse Susville Têche Tencin La Terrasse Theys Thodure Tignieu-Jameyzieu Torchefelon La Tour-du-Pinsubpr...
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frequent celebrated salons in Paris, such as those hosted by Mesdames de Tencin, Geoffrin, du Deffand and others. Within these salons she crossed paths...
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not official royal mistress of Charles XIII of Sweden Claudine Guérin de Tencin (1681–1749), French courtesan and later a famous salonnière Cora Pearl (1836–1886)...
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disparaged him. Marivaux's friends included Helvétius, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle and even Madame de Pompadour (who allegedly...
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salons such as those of Madame de Stael, Madame Geoffrin and Madame de Tencin in Ancien Regime France, though these could more accurately be considered...
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is one of a series of six paintings by the artist for Pierre Guérin de Tencin and his archepiscopal palace at Lyon; the others were The Death of Lucretia...
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in Elbląg Slovakia Explosive Ordnance Disposal Centre of Excellence, in Tencin United Kingdom Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, in Innsworth Joint Electronic...
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produced in Rome as part of a commission from cardinal Pierre Guérin de Tencin for his archepiscopal palace in Lyon. The other paintings in the commission...
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adventuress Claudine Grimaldi (c. 1541 – 1515), Lady of Monaco Claudine Guérin de Tencin (1682–1749), French salonist and author Claudine Komgang (born 1974), Cameroonian...
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sucking pig ”, Monsieur de Maurepas ”the spinning-cat", and Cardinal de Tencin ”the ostrich". Cardinal Fleury's death on 29 January 1743 signified the...
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Saint-Pierre-de-Mésage, Saint-Quentin-sur-Isère, Sainte-Marie-d’Alloix, Tencin, Tullins, Veurey-Voroize, Villard-Bonnot, Vizille, Voreppe, Vourey. du Bas...
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Trémoille 1715-1715?: Michel Amelot de Gournay 1721-1724: Pierre Guérin de Tencin 1724-1731: Melchior de Polignac 1731-1740: Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers...
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"the spinning-cat", and Cardinal de Tencin "the ostrich". Directed by Richelieu, himself dominated by Madame de Tencin, Marie Anne encouraged the king to...
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Paris, d'Alembert was the natural son of the writer Claudine Guérin de Tencin and the chevalier Louis-Camus Destouches, an artillery officer. Destouches...
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England, 1436–1558. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84383-398-7. Guérin de Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine (1740). The Siege of Calais. Garland Pub. ISBN 978-0-8240-1101-7...
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mathematician, developed pressure cooking (d. 1712) 1679 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758) 1760 – Pope Leo XII (d. 1829) 1764 – Charles...
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her mother’s friend, author and salon host Claudine-Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin. It is possible that her parents were first cousins, as her mother’s biological...
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in La Romieu: Léa-Catherine Marie Anne Gourrange (7) 24 February 1894 in Tencin: Jean-Baptiste/Baptiste-Joseph Piraud 6-7 December 1894 in Châteaudouble:...
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commandeur in 1725. From an affair with his mistress Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Destouches fathered a child in 1717. In later life, this son would become...
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