Marie Anne Doublet

Louis Carmontelle : Marie-Anne Doublet and her brother, the Abbé Legendre

Marie Anne Doublet , called Doublet de Persan , (born August 23, 1677 in Paris , † 1771 ibid), was a French writer and salonnière .

In her salon in the Couvent des Filles-Saint-Thomas , where she lived from 1732 until her death in 1771, writers, scholars, artists, journalists and members of the Académie met . M ^me Doublets Salon kept its distance from the philosopher clique around Diderot and Baron Holbach , sympathized with the Jansenists and supported the Paris Parliament in its resistance to the judicial and administrative reforms of Maupeou . Louis Petit de Bachaumont acted as spiritus rector of the salon .

Life

Marie Anne Doublet was born in Paris as the third child of Marguerite le Roux and François Legendre. She received a good education, was interested in the sciences and the arts, and was a skilled pastel artist. In 1698 she was married to Louis Doublet. Doublet was secretary ( secrétaire des commandements ) and intendant de commerce of the regent . The couple had at least three children, two daughters and son Louis Doublet, Sgr de Breuilpont. In 1716 the couple moved into an apartment in the neighborhood of the monastery of the Filles de Saint-Thomas . The monastery was abandoned after the French Revolution and is now the classicist Palais Brongniart in its place .

The Doublets ran a sociable household. The guests of the house included, among others, the Conte Caylus , Nicolas Fréret , Mirabaud , Foncemagne , Helvétius , Marivaux and the young Bachaumant , with whom she remained close friends until his death.

After the death of Louis Doublet, who left her in solid financial circumstances, she moved to an apartment in the Couvent des Filles-Saint-Thomas , which she would not leave until her death. Bachaumont also had his apartment in the monastery. Louis Petit de Bachaumont was brought up as the grandson of the Dauphin's personal physician at the court in Versailles . Her relations with the court were excellent and ensured her and her salon a privileged position and a certain security from the measures of the then all-powerful censorship . Despite this, her salon, which sympathized with the opposition and the Paris Parliament , was always under police surveillance, and several of the participants enjoyed more or less long stays in the Bastille .

Marie Anne Doublet died very old at the age of 95, just under a month after Bachaumont.

The salon: La Paroisse

The members met every Saturday from 1731 to 1771 at Marie Anne Doublet's apartment. Her servants prepared two diaries: one was filled with the latest news, the other with the latest gossip. Each newcomer read through the texts and added them to their own knowledge. Afterwards there was a joint meal where the news was discussed and the latest from art and literature. Finally, the news was compressed into the so-called Nouvelles à la main , copied by hand by the servants and sent to Paris subscribers and to the provinces at a subscription price of between 6 and 12 livres.

The Nouvelles , which, in addition to the information disseminated in the official press, mainly contains news about intrigues and the background to political skirmishes at court as well as the latest gossip about the private affairs of political actors and the protagonists of the cultural scene, were taken to the police and passed the censorship. They also contained comments on new books that could not be sold because they had fallen victim to censorship, as well as information about works by visual artists, the art market and the theater.

The meetings of the Paroisse (French: "parish, parish"), which is what they called themselves in reference to the monastic place where they met, were led by the so-called Sainte Trinité ("Holy Trinity "). This consisted of Bachaumont, M ^me Doucet and their brother, the Abbé Legendre, a conseiller de grand'chambre .

Among the intellectual habitués of her salon were the historian, antiquarian and member of the Akaydemie Sainte-Palaye , the minister of state and keeper of the seal Chauvelin , the Abbé de Voisenon (1708–1775), for his part writer and academician, the poet Alexis Piron , Pidansat de Mariobert (1727 –1779), lawyer, permanent guest at Café Procope and temporarily royal censor or Boyer d'Éguilles (1708–1783), who mentions her in his letters with great esteem. Durey de Meinières (1705–1785) was President of the Second Chamber of Parliament, chaired the meetings in Bachaumont's absence, Mouffle d'Angerville (1728–1795) was a lawyer and sat twice in the Bastille because of his writings. The seedy Chevalier de La Morlière was also a guest here.

literature

• Alexandre Jean Baptiste Boyer: Un protégé de Bachaumont. Correspondance inédite du Marquis d'Éguilles, 1745-1748. Revue rétrospective, Paris 1887, pp. XVII-XVIII.
• Ferdinand Hoefer : Nouvelle Biographie générale . Vol. 30. Firmin-Didot, Paris 1859, p. 383.
• Gustave Vapereau : Dictionnaire universel des littératures . Hachette, Paris 1876, p. 1541.
• JD Popkin, B. Fort: The "Mémoires Secrets" and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-Century France . Voltaire Foundation, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-7294-0571-0 .
• Reinhard Wittmann et al. (Ed.): Book cultures . Contributions to the history of literary communication. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05260-0 .

Web links

• Neil Jeffares: Marie Anne Doublet. In: Dictionary of Pastellists bevore 1800.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harry Chisick: Historical Dictionary of the Enlightenment. Lanham, Maryland 2005, ISBN 0-8108-5097-4 , p. 149.
2. ↑ Amaury Doublet de Persan
3. ↑ Marjorie Elsie Almstrong: A Decade of Literary Criticisme in the memoirs secrets of Bachaumont. Vancouver 1968, p. 9 ff.
4. ^ Edmond and Jules de Goncourt : The Woman of the Eighteenth Century. Her Life, from birth to death, her Love and her Philosophy in the worlds of Salon, Shop, and Street ( Women's History 18). Routledge, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-415-53409-3 , p. 314.
5. ↑ Brigitte Schlieben-Lange: Handbook of political-social basic concepts in France. 1680-1829. 1/2: General bibliography. Oldenbourg, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-486-51391-5 , p. 81.