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
Grafigny, Mme de (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), 1695-1758
Published / Created:
1752.
Call Number:
1998 1243
Container / Volume:
1
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Lettres d'une Péruvienne
Description:
Engraved t.p.'s., Titles within ornamental borders., Initials; head- and tail-pieces., Engravings signed: C. Eisen inv,, Delafosse sculp., Errata on [1] leaf bound between p. 128 and [129] in v. 2., and "Cénie : en prose et en cinq actes : représenté pour la premiere fois par les Comédiens françois, le 25 juin 1750.--Nouvelle edition": v. 2, p. [129]-258.
Grafigny, Mme de (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), 1695-1758
Published / Created:
1752.
Call Number:
1998 1243
Container / Volume:
2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Lettres d'une Péruvienne
Description:
Engraved t.p.'s., Titles within ornamental borders., Initials; head- and tail-pieces., Engravings signed: C. Eisen inv,, Delafosse sculp., Errata on [1] leaf bound between p. 128 and [129] in v. 2., and "Cénie : en prose et en cinq actes : représenté pour la premiere fois par les Comédiens françois, le 25 juin 1750.--Nouvelle edition": v. 2, p. [129]-258.
