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- 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...
- nicknamed le hussard ("the hussar") from a costume he wore. Marie, marquise du Deffand wrote in 1769 that this boy would be punished in the king's stead, whence...
- Vichy-Chamrond, whose sister, Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand, ran a famous Paris salon. Looked down on for her poverty and illegitimate...
- philosopher Condillac, as well as the Marquise de Tencin and the Marquise du Deffand. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was Dupin's secretary and tutored her son. Rousseau...
- drawn them thither, it was she alone who kept them there." the marquise du Deffand, the friend of Horace Walpole the marquise de Lambert the duchesse du Maine...
- Retrieved 2018-02-13. In the rational atmosphere of the Enlightenment, Mme du Deffand observed "il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte", "it's only the first...
- one occasion) by the salonnières. Another salonnière, the Marquise du Deffand, can be said to have competed against Madame Geoffrin for the friendship...
- Diderot, Rabelais, Calmann-Lévy (1888) Figures de femmes : Madame du Deffand, Madame d'Épinay, Madame Necker, Madame de Beaumont, Madame Récamier, etc...
- Enlightenment. Madame du Deffand was an upper class French woman, who held w****ly salons in Paris. Known for her intelligence and cynicism, Deffand became friends...
- 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...