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Marie Du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]

… 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 impoverished … de Lauzun, Madame de Vallière, and the Camarans. By 1753, Madame du Deffand was completely blind. She took on Julie de Lespinasse as her personal reader but, after a falling-out in 1764, put an end to their relationship.  Madame du … of sociability, both real and imagined. … Friendship … Correspondence … Epistolary … Letter … Salon … Horace Walpole … Lespinasse … Geoffrin … Marie Du Deffand …

Salons [ Associational culture ]

… de Graffigny. (Lilti 93-98, 177) Some salon hostesses found a means to circumnavigate this financial challenge. Julie de Lespinasse, for instance, received visitors every day for four hours, and rather than offering supper, people would stop … read the letters she received from Voltaire to the guests gathered at her salon. 9   As for the conversation at Lespinasse’s salon, Grimm observed, ‘ politique, religion, philosophie, contes, nouvelles, rien n’était exclu de ses … aristocrats, high-ranking government officials, men of letters, and artists. (Lilti 66) Grimm described Julie de Lespinasse’s salon according to the following, ‘ Son cercle se renouvelait tous les jours, depuis cinq heures jusqu’à …

David Hume [ Philosophy ]

… 1763, p. 172. He found a special satisfaction in attending the literary salons of Mme du Deffand, Mme Geoffrin, Mlle de Lespinasse and of the Countess of Boufflers. ‘Le bon David’ was a shining public figure both admired by Parisian ladies …