Marie du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 … was exceedingly exclusive […] and intent on safeguarding its cachet and language.’ 2 1 . Antoine Lilti, Le monde des salons. Sociabilité et mondanité à Paris au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Ed. Fayard, 2005) 2 . Benedetta Craveri, Madame du … 3 . Walpole to Thomas Gray, 25 January 1766, cited by Jacqueline Hellegouarc’h in L’Esprit de société. Cercles et salons parisiens au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Editions Garnier, 2000), p. 174. The letters Madame du Deffand exchanged with …
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