Marie du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]
… from her tonneau (a great hood chair), rapidly coming to rival another famous salonnière , Madame Geoffrin, 1 who would play a definitive role in financing the Encyclopédie . Benedetta Craveri describes Madame Geoffrin’s salon as ‘the … in 1723. At the age of 51, she settled into her salon in the Saint-Joseph convent on rue Saint-Dominique, where she played hostess to her circle of faithful friends: Président Hénault; Antoine de Ferriol, the comte de Pont-de-Veyle; … and stone blind, but retains all her vivacity, wit, memory, judgement, passions and agreeableness. She goes to operas, plays, suppers, and Versailles; gives suppers twice a week; has everything new read to her; makes new songs and epigrams, …
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