Marie du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]
… of 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 Mots-clés Correspondence France Friendship Salons Madame du Deffand, née Marie de Vichy-Champrond, was born in 1698 into an old but … conversation flowing between friends, the rules of sociability sometimes called for honeyed words. 4 . Horace Walpole’s Correspondence with Madame du Deffand and Wiart, dans Horace Walpole's Correspondence. The Yale Edition of Horace …
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