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2.
- Creator:
- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
- Call Number:
- LWL MSS 11 Box 8
- Image Count:
- 43
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Madame du Deffand's diary, written in the hand of Jean-Francois Wiart, she having lost her sight in 1754, for the last months from July 1779 to September 1780 in which she records details of her dinner engagements with her circle of friends, the entries ending less than two weeks before her death on September 23. She also makes note of who she has corresponded with that day and records details of interest to her about 01the news contained in the letters she receives or events of the day
- Description:
- Marie Anne de Vichy Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697-1780), was married at 21 to her kinsman, Jean Baptiste de la Lande, marquis du Deffand. The marriage resulted in a separation as early as 1722. However, her intelligence, cynicism, and wit gained her such friends as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Fontenelle and Madame de Staal-Delaunay, the president Henault, and D'Alembert. The principal friendships of her later years were with the duchesse de Choiseul and with Horace Walpole. She died on September 23, 1780, leaving her papers to Walpole., In French., Title from cover., Final 206 pages blank. Bound in green vellum., and Formerly classed as: 49 2545 II.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Name):
- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780.
- Subject (Topic):
- Women, Conduct of life, Authors, French, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Journal de Madame du Deffand, 1779 July 1-1780 September 10.
3.
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
- Call Number:
- LWL MSS 11 Box 2
- Image Count:
- 56
- Alternative Title:
- Series of five autograph letters to Madame du Deffand ...
- Description:
- In French, accompanied by English translations in typescript (26 leaves)., Also accompanied by a short biography of Madame du Deffand in ms. (2 leaves), Set in sunk mounts, bound in v. of [36] leaves., Letters dated: 1775 January 4, 13, 19, 27, 31., Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, London., Published in the Yale edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, 1939, v. 6, pp. 131-52., The letters were part of the ms. collection bequeathed by Madame du Deffand to Horace Walpole. Sold at the Strawberry Hill Sale, 1842, to Dyce-Sombre whose nephew, W.R. Parker-Jervis sold them in 1920. Acquired by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis in 1932., Formerly classed as: 49 2545 I., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
- Subject (Name):
- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780. and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Letters : London [to] Madame du Deffand, Paris, 1775 January 4-31
4.
- Creator:
- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
- Call Number:
- LWL MSS 11
- Image Count:
- 164
- Abstract:
- Manuscript copies in multiple hands, of 62 letters to or by Madame du Deffand, primarily letters from du Deffand to the duchesse du Choiseul; also two letters to Horace Walpole. The letters primarily concern social subject such as dinners, news of friends, current reading, and routine expressions of friendship. In one letter, she tells Horace Walpole she is reading de Boutigny's Tarsis et Zelie; in another, she mentions that Sedaine read to her his Paris Inedite. She also discusses the American Revolution in a letter dated October 24, 1777, which reports that some say General Burgoyne has been taken, while others say that Philadelphia has fallen
- Description:
- Marie Anne de Vichy Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697-1780), was married at 21 to her kinsman, Jean Baptiste de la Lande, marquis du Deffand. The marriage resulted in a separation as early as 1722. However, her intelligence, cynicism, and wit gained her such friends as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Fontenelle and Madame de Staal-Delaunay, the president Henault, and D'Alembert. The principal friendships of her later years were with the duchesse de Choiseul and with Horace Walpole. She died on September 23, 1780, leaving her papers to Walpole., In English., Formerly classed as: 49 2545 VI., Laid in: several pages of handwritten notes by Ste.-Aulaire., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and United States
- Subject (Name):
- Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792., Choiseul Stainville, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801., Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780., Le Vayer de Boutigny, M. 1627-1685. (Roland),, Sainte-Aulaire, Joseph Louis Camille de Beaupoil, Marquis, 1798-1819., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Nobility, Social life and customs, and History
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Letters, 1737-1780
5.
- Creator:
- Freeman, Samuel, 1773-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- July 1810.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 486 21
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Madame la marquise Du Deffand
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Mounted on page 8 above another print: Françoise Marguerite de Sevigné, comtesse de Grignan.
- Publisher:
- Published by Longman & Co., Paternoster Row
- Subject (Name):
- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mad. la marquise Du Deffand from an original drawing at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]
6.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1798 and 1810]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Marie du Deffand, after Carmontelle; half-length directed to left, her eyes closed, wearing dark hood and ruffled bonnet; in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.2306., Engraved after a wash drawing by Carmontelle that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Blue Breakfast Room at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 65 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; oval sheet 7.3 x 5.8 cm and sheet 1.1 x 6.8 cm., Imperfect; oval portrait and title text cut from sheet and mounted one on top of the other, with imprint statement trimmed away., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Publd. Novr. 12 by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall
- Subject (Name):
- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Madam Marie de Vichi Marquis du Deffand from a drawing aat [sic] Strawberry Hill. [graphic]
7.
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1824]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Madame du Deffand, half length, in profile to the left, eyes closed, head covered with a bonnet or hooded garment
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably after a wash drawing by Carmontelle that formerly hung in the blue breakfast room at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 55 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
- Subject (Name):
- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Madame la Marquise du Deffand [art original].
8.
- Creator:
- Langlumé, Pierre, 1790- printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1822 and 1840?]
- Call Number:
- Portraits D845 no. 1 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- BEIN BrSides 2019 527: Uncolored. On sheet 41.0 x 27.4 cm. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection., Title from caption below image., and Publication date is from printmaker's active dates.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > N. Dudeffant née en 1696; morte en 1780 [graphic]
9.
- Creator:
- Boufflers, Stanislas-Jean de, 1738-1815
- Call Number:
- LWL MSS 11 Box 12
- Image Count:
- 122
- Abstract:
- Songs, verses, letters, epigrams
- Description:
- Bound in green vellum. Formerly classed as: 49 2545 IV. and Includes an index.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Oeuvres ... / between 1760? and 1780
10.
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1769?]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents C287 no. 1 Box 100
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- From the description of the Breakfast Room in the 1784 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole: "Madame la marquise de Deffand and the duchesse de Choiseul giving her a doll, which the former, who was blind, holds out her hand to receive; alluding to her calling the ducess Grand Mamam ...by M. Carmontel, a gentleman belonging to the Duke of Orleans .. a washed drawing." See p. 26.
- Description:
- Title from ms. note in ink below image., After the Carmontelle watercolor that hung in the Breakfast room at Strawberry Hill and sold at the Strawberry Hill sale eleventh day, lot 111., and Date based on the correspondence between Walpole and Du Deffand. See Yale edition of the correspondence, vol. 4.
- Subject (Name):
- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, and Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Portrait de Mme. du Deffand appartement a Walpolè [art original].
