Marie du Deffand [ 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 … from 1771 to 1781), and Count Ulrik Scheffer (the Swedish minister to Paris from 1744 to 1751). George Selwyn introduced Horace Walpole to ‘the blind old bat’ in 1765. She was 68 at the time. In a letter Walpole wrote in 1766 to his friend, …
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