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… 3 When in Paris in 1780, for example, George Herbert, later 11 th earl of Pembroke, bounced between Versailles, the salon run by the Parisian hostess, Amélie de Boufflers, Duchess de Lauzun, and much wilder libertine sets. 4 In certain … François Quesnay, Dupont de Nemours , Mirabeau , Mercier de la Rivière , and Turgot , as well as partake in the salons of D'Enville , De Boufflers , Du Deffand , and De L'Espinasse . Despite his poor French, the trip bolstered his … husband, Gabriele Piozzi, from 1784 to 1787, Hester Lynch Piozzi described meeting and conversing with a variety of salonniers in Florence, Rome and Venice. 10 Lady Fremantle (nee Wynne) was r aised in the cosmopolitan European elite …
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