- 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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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...
- 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, she...
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particularly those of
Marie Thérèse
Rodet Geoffrin, of the
marquise du
Deffand and of
Julie de Lespin****e. D'Alembert
became infatuated with
Julie de...
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
