Marie du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 correspondence with Horace Walpole gives us a window into how Franco-British … 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 provincial noble … of repartee and sociability. The marquise du Deffand was a spirited woman with a sharp tongue. She presided over the salon she established in 1747 from her tonneau (a great hood chair), rapidly coming to rival another famous salonnière , …
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