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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 (22
August 1679 – 2
March 1758) was a
French ecclesiastic and statesman, who was
archbishop of
Embrun and Lyon and cardinal...
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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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conclavists have
later been
elevated to the cardinalate, such as
Pierre Guérin de
Tencin (1721), Niccolò
Coscia (1724),
Christoph Anton Migazzi (1740), and Carlo...
- 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...
- 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...
- a
Cardinal since 23
February 1739,
archbishop of
Milan Pierre-Guérin de
Tencin (1680–1758), also a
Cardinal since 23
February 1739,
archbishop of Embrun...
- 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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sucking pig ”,
Monsieur de
Maurepas ”the spinning-cat", and
Cardinal de
Tencin ”the ostrich".
Cardinal Fleury's
death on 29
January 1743
signified the...
