… 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 … Craveri, 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 … to Thomas Gray ( 25 January 766 ). Mme de Genlis, Salon de Mme du Deffand ( 1825 ). … Correspondence … France … Friendship … Salons … Marie du Deffand …