Madame Du Deffand and her world
by Benedetta Craveri
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Possessing "a definite taste for defiance," the Marquise du Deffand (1696-1780) shocked even the immoral French society of the 1700s by flouting decorum and blatantly disregarding women's traditional roles. Madame du Deffand and Her World is the first full-length portrait of this remarkable woman, among the most scandalous of her time, who played a major part in the turbulent decades leading up to the French Revolution.
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Authors, French, Biography, Court and courtiers, French Authors, History, Social life and customs, Parisian Salons, French Salons, French Society Hostess, Voltaire, Horace Walpole, Authors, biography, France, court and courtiers, France, social life and customs, France, history, 18th century, New York Times reviewedPlaces
Burgundy, France, Paris, Saône-et-LoireTimes
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Madame Du Deffand and Her World
November 2002, Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
Paperback
- New Ed edition
1870015797 9781870015790
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Madame Du Deffand and her world
1994, David R. Godine
Hardcover
in English
- First American Edition
1567920012 9781567920017
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Includes detailed bibliographical notes (pp. 395-432) with alphabetical listing and descriptions of the people and places mentioned in the book. Footnotes (pp. 433-495) are also detailed and provide some additional historic context.
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Biography of Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, Madame du Deffand.
Madame du Deffand, a popular and influential Parisian salon hostess, was widely respected for her keen wit and intellect, and she was a prolific correspondent with a number of notable thought & literary figures of her time. Her letters to people such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Fontenelle were published after her death by close friend Horace Walpole.
Author Benedetta Craveri, a professor of French literature, originally published the biography in Italian as "Madame du Deffand e il suo mondo" in 1982. She won awards for the work in Italy & France - this U.S. edition & English translation was published a little over a decade later in 1994.
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