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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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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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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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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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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...
