Marie Du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]
… all ties with her husband 10 years later. For a time, she lived a life of pleasure at the court of Sceaux, where she met Voltaire , and later became close with the president of the Chambre des enquêtes, Charles-Jean-François Hénault, who … Madame du Deffand et son monde (Paris: Flammarion, 2017), p. 621. Madame du Deffand had solidified her friendship with Voltaire as she partook in the literary and worldly games offered at the residence of Lord Bolingbroke before his recall … and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him… In a dispute, into which she easily falls, she is very warm, …
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