Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… underpinnings of her enduring friendships with David Garrick and Robert Liston. 1 1 . Mme Riccoboni's Letters to David Hume, David Garrick, Robert Liston, ed. James C. Nicholls (Oxford, The Voltaire Foundation, 1976). Riccoboni wrote her … Joseph Addison , and Alexander Pope . In Paris, she also rubbed shoulders with figures such as Richard Burke, David Hume , Adam Smith , and Philip Changuion, the British ambassador to France. In 1765, she entered into correspondence with … had its own share of unsavoury attributes. To make peace with Garrick following her comments, she admitted, echoing Hume—during a visit to Paris in 1764, the philosopher had gifted Riccoboni with a copy of his History of England—, that …
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