Jeanne-Catherine Quinault
Jeanne-Catherine Quinault (* 1725 - May 11, 1812 in Paris ) was the wife of the French lawyer, avocat au Parlement François-Alixand de Maux (1714-1806) and niece of the actress Jeanne-Françoise Quinault (1699-1773). She remained known to posterity as the lover of Denis Diderot .
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She came from the acting dynasty of the Quinaults , so her paternal grandfather was the French actor Jean Quinault (1656-1728) from Bourges , who had been married to Marie Saintelette, the daughter of a baker from Verdun, since 1686. Four of his children also became actors. She was also the niece of the actress and Salonnière Jeanne-Françoise Quinault. She was the natural, i.e. H. illegitimate daughter of the actor Abraham-Alexis Quinault (1693–1767) and his later wife Catherine-Jeanne Dupré , also known as M lle de Seine and after her marriage as Catherine-Marie-Jeanne Quinault-Dufresne. The parents married in Lyon on May 20, 1727.
She was the wife of François-Alixand de Maux, a lawyer at the Parlement , avocat au Parlement . She was friends with Louise d'Épinay . Jeanne-Catherine Quinault was friends with Étienne Noël Damilaville for a few months until he died in December 1768.
From the spring of 1769, Denis Diderot entered into an intimate relationship with her, which lasted until 1771, with Diderot M me. de Maux had known since around 1760. He was in a relationship with Madeleine de Puisieux from 1745 and Sophie Volland from 1755.
In August 1770 Diderot stayed in Bourbonne-les-Bains . There he met his former girlfriend, Quinault also M me. de Maux, who took a cure in the thermal baths with her daughter, M me de Pruneveaux. A short time later he wrote Les Deux Amis de Bourbonne .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ according to other information, the date of death was 1807
- ↑ Pierre Lepape: Denis Diderot. A biography. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-593-35150-1 , p. 363
- ↑ La vie de Denis Diderot. (PDF; 3.2 MB)
- ↑ Pierre Lepape: Denis Diderot. A biography. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-593-35150-1 , pp. 362-363.
- ↑ La vie de Denis Diderot. (PDF; 3.2 MB)
- ↑ Manuel Couvreur: Diderot et Philidor: le philosophe au chevet d'Ernelinde. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année 1991 Volume 11 Numéro 11 p. 91
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quinault, Jeanne-Catherine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | de Maux, Jeanne-Catherine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lover of Denis Diderot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1725 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1812 |
| Place of death | Paris |