Julie de Lespinasse

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Julie de Lespinasse

Jeanne Julie de Lespinasse (born November 10, 1732 in Lyon , † May 22, 1776 in Paris ) was a French salonnière of the Enlightenment .

Life

Julie comes from an extramarital relationship between her mother Julie d'Albon (1695-1748) and Count Gaspard Nicolas de Vichy (1699-1781), a brother of the Marquise du Deffand . It was named after an estate Lespinasse . For a while she lived in a monastery. Then she was initially a teacher and in April 1754 was taken to Paris by her blind aunt, Madame du Deffand, in her salon. After the death of her husband, the Marquis du Deffand (1688-1750), the latter was in the former apartment of Madame de Montespan in a former convent, the couvent des Filles de Saint-Joseph in rue Saint-Dominiquemoved to Paris. Julie de Lespinasse moved in with her aunt, first living in a coach house and later in a room above the aunt's apartment. Julie helped her host and host the salon parties and made many acquaintances. There she entered into a deep platonic partnership with the enlightener D'Alembert .

The Marquise du Deffand was blind and had a habit of only receiving late at night. Guests preferred to go to Lespinasse's company first and only then went to the elderly hostess. This led to a break between the two women in May of 1764, so that Julie des Lespinasse felt compelled to look for a place of her own. As her new domicile, she chose a three-story house in the n ° 6 rue Saint-Dominique at the intersection with rue de Bellechasse, about a hundred meters from where she used to live.

There she founded her own salon with the help of Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin and Louise Françoise Pauline de Montmorency (1734-1818). The greatest writers and philosophers of their time frequented it, especially the encyclopedists , whose " muse " Julie de Lespinasse was often referred to. It also belonged to the Salon der philosophes , which Madame Helvétius presided over.

Although, according to contemporary statements, Julie was not particularly pretty and later also marked by peeling scars, she must have had an irresistible, magical attraction, because she had quite a few affairs, including with José Pignatelli (1737-1811), Marquis de Mora (1744 –1774) and Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert , to whom she wrote glowing love letters that were later published.

Denis Diderot's Le Rêve de d'Alembert , part of a trilogy that was written in 1769 and written in dialogue form, is one of the most important philosophical works . In this fictional work, the author, Mademoiselle de Lespinasse, D'Alembert and Théophile de Bordeu are staged.

German editions

literature

  • Lytton Strachey : French paradises: Voltaire , Madame du Deffand, Mademoiselle de Lespinasse and Stendhal . Wagenbach, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8031-1209-5
  • Lytton Strachey : Mademoiselle de Lespinasse. In: Corona , Vol. 5 (1934/35), pp. 223-236.
  • Erwin Angermayer (editor): Great women in world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures. Neuer Kaiser Verlag, Klagenfurt 1987; New edition 1997 ISBN 3704330647 , p. 157
  • István Benedek: Parisian salons. Historical novel. Translated from the Hungarian by Ita Szent-Iványi. Volk und Welt, Berlin 1974 (frequent new editions, last 5th edition 1982)
  • Marie-Christine d'Aragon; Jean Lacouture: Julie de Lespinasse: Mourir d'amour. Editions Complexe, Destins (2006), ISBN 2-804-801195
  • Camilla Jebb: A Star of the Salons: Julie de Lespinasse. New York, GP Putnam's Sons (1908)

Web links

Commons : Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogy of the mother
  2. ↑ Genealogy of the father
  3. ↑ Eske, Antje: The connection between social web and salon culture. 13 salons. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 3-839-18308-1 , p. 28.
  4. ^ Biography of Madame du Deffand (French).
  5. ^ Pierre Marie Maurice Henri Segur, marquis de: Julie de Lespinasse. Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1905.
  6. ↑ a b Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures. Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 157.
  7. ↑ Durant, Will & Ariel: Europe and the East in the Age of Enlightenment. Ullstein, Frankfurt, Berlin and Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-548-36115-3 , pp. 147–157.
  8. ^ Genealogy of Louise Françoise Pauline de Montmorency
  9. ^ Louise Françoise Pauline (de) Montmorency- Luxembourg (January 16, 1734 - August 25, 1818), wife of Anne François de Montmorency-Luxembourg (1735–1761). Rousseau was both a guest; see Friedrich Johann Lorenz Meyer : Letters from the capital and the interior of France, Vol. 2, Tübingen 1802, pp. 226-230: in the Mont-Louis castle in the city of Montmorency ( online ). Here also the designation of Louise as "Marshal of Luxembourg", la maréchale, which refers more to the famous father of her husband .
  10. ↑ Biblioteca Digital Moratin. Luis Coloma - EL MARQUÉS DE MORA, text in Spanish, online
personal data
SURNAME Lespinasse, Julie de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lespinasse, Jeanne Julie de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French salonière
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1776
Place of death Paris