Marie du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]
… ‘Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand’, Wikimedia Commons, M0536_D.1920.13, 1760. Résumé Connoisseurs of art and literature from all over Britain were known to grace Madame du Deffand’s salon on rue Saint-Dominique. Her … 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 … du Deffand’s salon became a popular destination for British writers and eccentrics, men of state, and amateurs of art, literature, philosophy, and politics. John Craufurd, Gilbert Elliot, James Macdonald, Lord Robert Darcy, Lord Shelburne, …
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