Marie du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 impoverished … Clairon, at the Montigny residence, but claimed she did not appreciate the maudlin play-acting currently in fashion in France and regretted that contemporary literature was ‘as sterile as it was abundant.’ 5 She was shocked by the liberties … Horace Walpole to Thomas Gray ( 25 January 766 ). Mme de Genlis, Salon de Mme du Deffand ( 1825 ). … Correspondence … France … Friendship … Salons … Marie du Deffand …
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