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Marie Du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]
… from all over Britain were known to grace Madame du Deffand’s salon on rue Saint-Dominique. Her correspondence with Horace Walpole gives us a window into how Franco-British epistolary relationships helped shape new spaces of sociability, both real and imagined. People > Art and Literature Keywords Friendship Correspondence Epistolary Letter Salon Horace Walpole Lespinasse Geoffrin Madame du Deffand, née Marie de Vichy-Champrond, was born in 1698 into an old but …Horace Walpole (and the English garden) [ Art and Literature / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
Wallpapers [ Furniture & Interior decoration ]
… qui, du voyage jusqu’au retour au domicile, permettait la personnalisation de la collection d’estampes et sa diffusion. Horace Walpole fera un usage considérable des papiers peints à Strawberry hill, notamment pour recréer un univers gothique. … les papiers peints permettent l'expression d'une intériorité singulière, voire excentrique, comme nous le verrons avec Horace Walpole, dans son castelet gothique de Strawberry Hill. Ils permettent en effet de déployer un imaginaire ou …Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
… a hostess to revive the splendour of Devonshire House. Cavendish’s charm and charisma made her compelling as noted by Horace Walpole, who recorded that ‘her youth, figure, flowing good nature, sense and lively modesty, and modest familiarity, … circle of friends, and her noted charm, high spirits and high rank made her a social sensation with the ‘bon ton’. 1 . Horace Walpole to Lady Ossory, Wednesday 1st February, 1775, The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence, ed. W.S …Pagination
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