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Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles d'Épinay (11 March 1726 – 17 April 1783), better known as Mme d'Épinay, was a French writer, a saloniste and woman of fashion, known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gives unflattering reports of her in his Confessions, as well as her acquaintanceship with Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Baron d'Holbach and other French men of letters during the Enlightenment.
Louise d’Épinay and Ferdinando Galiani, Correspondance, ed. Daniel Maggetti in coll. with Georges Dulac (Paris: Desjonquères, 1992–95). [ ↩ ] This aspect of her production is increasingly better known, due notably to the work that accompanies the critical edition of the Correspondance littéraire , which is ongoing under the direction of Ulla Kölving.
Épinay, Louise-Florence-Pétronille, Madame la Live d' (1726–1783)French literary and social figure, friend of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot, who wrote on education and an autobiographical novel depicting life in the upper classes during the Enlightenment. Name variations: Madame d'Epinay; Louise d'Épinay.
Angélique-Louise-Charlotte ( 1er août 1749 - 1er juin 1824 ), reconnue par Denis d'Épinay bien que le père naturel soit vraisemblablement Louis Dupin de Francueil. Jean-Claude Leblanc de Beaulieu, fils lui aussi de Dupin de Francueil, est né à Paris le 29 mai 1753, placé dans une ferme.
Louise-Florence-Pétronille Tardieu d’Esclavelles, dame de la Live d’Épinay (born March 11, 1726, Valenciennes, Fr.—died April 17, 1783, Paris) was a distinguished figure in advanced literary circles in 18th-century France.
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Feb 25, 2024 · Abstract. In 1771–1772 Louise d’Épinay (1726–1783) wrote two letters from Paris to her friend abbé Ferdinando Galiani (1728–1787) in Naples that can fairly be called uncompromising statements of rationalist feminism. Of the many sources of her feminism, this essay will focus on a fundamental experience: her two-year visit to Geneva in ...
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In 1771–1772 Louise d’Épinay (1726–1783) wrote two letters from Paris to her friend abbé Ferdinando Galiani (1728–1787) in Naples that can fairly be called uncompromising statements of ...
