Françoise-Louise de Warens

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Madame de Warens

Françoise-Louise de Warens , b. Louise Éléonore de la Tour du Pil, baronne de (born March 31, 1699 in Vevey ; † July 29, 1762 in Chambéry ), is best known today as Jean-Jacques Rousseau's most important person .

The house Les Charmettes , together in the Jean-Jacques Rousseau with M me lived de Warens in the years 1735-1736. Today the building is a museum dedicated to Rousseau.

Life

Her father was a doctor and her mother died when she was five years old. She was brought up by the single father's sisters with whom she lived. Her father remarried and died when she was ten years old.

In 1714 she married Sébastien-Isaac de Loys, baron de Warens. Around 1719 she lived with her husband in Lausanne , where she was in a relationship with Etienne-Sigismond de Tavel, a citizen from Bern. In June 1726 the small river Veveyse burst its banks and her husband was recruited for relief efforts. She took the opportunity to leave him.

Madame de Warens (as she is usually called) converted from Protestantism to Catholicism in 1726 and emigrated to the neighboring Duchy of Savoy - Piedmont , which was a practically independent state at the time. From 1726 she lived first in Annecy and later in Charmettes near Chambéry. She received a pension of 2500 Piedmontese pounds annually from the Duke of Savoy, Viktor Amadeus II , with the task of promoting the Catholic faith in the region bordering Calvinist Swiss territories.

In 1728 she took the 15-year-old Rousseau into her care, who had just turned his back on his native Geneva and went on a wandering tour. She made him go to Turin and convert to Catholicism there too. Later she took him in completely and supported him, who affectionately called the 13-year-old woman maman , in his endeavors to become self-taught. In 1732 she finally made him her lover too. When he was absent for a long time in the winter of 1737/38, she replaced him with her new secretary and property manager Jean-Samuel-Rodolphe Wintzenried (1716–1772), but let him live with her for a while after his return.

She met Rousseau for the last time, who had been living in Paris for a long time and had been living there with Thérèse Levasseur since 1745 , on the occasion of his trip to Geneva, which he took in 1754 to return to Protestantism and to regain his citizenship.

literature

  • Paola Crivelli: Warens, Françoise-Louise de. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, H. Denhardt (transl.): Confessions . 2 parts. Ph. Reclam jun., Leipzig 1921.
  • François-Amedee Doppet: Memoires de Madame de Warens, suivis de ceux de Claude Anet. Publies par un CDMDP Pour servir d'apologie aux Confessions de JJ Rousseau, Chambery, 1786 . (probably 1830).
  • Karl Gotthold Lenz: About Rousseau's connection with women. Two parts in one volume . H. Barsdorf, Berlin 1906.
  • François Mugnier: Madame de Warens et JJ Rousseau. Etude historique et critique. Avec un portrait de Madame de Warens, une vue des Charmettes et deux fac-similes . Calmann-Levy, Paris (probably 1900).
  • Karl-Heinz Ott : Wintzenried (novel). Hoffmann & Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2011.
  • Anne Noschis: Madame de Warens, éducatrice de Rousseau, espionne, femme d'affaires, libertine. Editions de l'Aire, 2012, ISBN 978-2-940478-27-9 .

Web links

Commons : Françoise-Louise de Warens  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Gonthier: Montreux et ses hôtes illustres. Editions Cabedita, 1999, ISBN 2-88295-267-8 , p. 19. ( books.google.fr ).
  2. ^ Les confessions, de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Garnier frères, 1930, note n ° 135, p. 240 ( books.google.fr ).
  3. ^ Maurice Cranston: Jean-Jacques. The Early Life and Work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712–1754. University. of Chicago Press (1991) ISBN 0-226-11862-2 , pp. 70 ff.
  4. ^ Albert de Montet: Madame de Warrens et le pays de Vaud. IMP. Georges Bridel & G., Lausanne 1891, p. 49 ( ddata.over-blog.com , PDF; 12.8 MB.)
  5. ^ Heiner Hug: Smart, rich, sensual, tempting. In: Journal21. “MÈRE UNIVERSELLE” July 19, 2012, biography.
  6. ↑ memo. Voyagez à travers l'Histoire. ( Memento of July 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (French).
personal data
SURNAME Warens, Françoise-Louise de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Madame de Warens (short name); Tour, Louise Eleonore de la (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Beloved Jean-Jacques Rousseau
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1699
PLACE OF BIRTH Vevey
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1762
Place of death Chambery