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Marie Du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]

… People > Art and Literature Mots-clés 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 provincial noble … established in 1747 from her tonneau (a great hood chair), rapidly coming to rival another famous salonnière , Madame Geoffrin, 1  who would play a definitive role in financing the Encyclopédie . Benedetta Craveri describes Madame Geoffrin’s salon as ‘the expression of an enlightened bourgeoisie, eager to assert its cultural titles,’ while in …

Salons [ Associational culture ]

… Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier,  ’Lecture de la tragédie "L'orphelin de la Chine" de Voltaire dans le salon de madame Geoffrin’,  Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau , MM 59.3.1, c. 1812. This painting depicts a … ideas, and to discuss the political issues of the day. While many of the attendees depicted did in fact attend Geoffrin’s salon at one time or another, many did not, and they were never all present at the same time. 5  In reality, … hosted by a man – such as the salon hosted by the baron d’Holbach. As Morellet describes it, in the case of Madame Geoffrin’s salon, the gens de lettres 's’accoutumèrent à se rassembler chez elle un jour de la semaine; le mercredi elle …

Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]

… fuelled the cultural rivalry between the two nations. 14   13 . André Morellet, 'De la Conversation', Éloges de Madame Geoffrin (Paris: H. Nicolle, 1812), p. 158. 14 . David Fordyce, Dialogues Concerning Education, 2 vols. (London, 1748), …

David Hume [ Philosophy ]

… Ferguson, 9th Nov. 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 …