Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles

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Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles (* 1647 in Paris , † July 12, 1733 in Paris), married Madame de Lambert, Marquise de Saint-Bris (* 1650), known under the name of Marquise de Lambert , was a French writer and well-known salonnière .

Live and act

During the immaturity of Louis XIV , the Régence , the court of the regent, Duke Philip II of Orléans , was considered immoral, while the salon of the Marquise de Lambert was a refuge of decency and good taste.

Anne-Thérèse was the only daughter of Étienne de Marguenat, Seigneur de Courcelles († 1650), and his wife Monique Passart († 1692). Her father died early when she was only three years old. In 1666 she married the Marquis of Saint-Bris Henri de Lambert, the lieutenant general and governor of Luxembourg .

In 1710 she opened her literary salon . On Wednesdays she invited the high society, on Tuesdays the writers. In doing so, she tried to establish contacts between the two groups. Political and religious discussions were forbidden in the literary salon, but she was by no means conservative, but was very interested in Montesquieu's socially critical Persian letters and managed to get him accepted into the Académie française . She was also one of the first ladies from high society to accept actors in her salon, e. B. Adrienne Lecouvreur and Michel Baron .

literature

  • Benedetta Craveri: The Art of Conversation . New York Review Books, New York 2005.
  • Robert Dauvergne: La marquise de Lambert à l'Hôtel de Nevers, 1698–1733 . In: Paris: A. Michel (ed.): Revue de synthèse . XXI, No. Fascicule no.2, octobre – décembre, 1947.
  • Ferdinand Delavigne: Le Premier salon du XVIIIe siècle. Une amie de Fontenelle . In: Toulouse: Douladoure (ed.): Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, etc., de Toulouse . No. 7e série, t. 10, 1878.
  • Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle [1767]: Éloge de la Marquise de Lambert . In: Œuvres de Fontenelle , Volume II. Salmon, Paris 1825, pp. 400–404.
  • Charles Giraud: Le Salon de Mme de Lambert . In: La maréchale de Villars et son temps . Imprimerie nationale, Paris 1881, pp. 180-194.
  • Robert Granderoute: De l ' Education des filles aux Avis d'une mère à sa fille : Fénelon et Madame de Lambert . In: Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France . 87, 1987, pp. 15-30.
  • Octave Gréard: Madame de Lambert . In: L'éducation des femmes par les femmes . Hachette, Paris 1886, pp. 169-216.
  • Ellen McNiven Hine: Madame de Lambert, her Sources and her Circle  (= Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), Volume 102. The Voltaire Foundation, Oxford 1973.
  • Ellen McNiven Hine: New Reflections on Women by the Marchioness de Lambert: A New Translation and Introduction  (= Feminist Literary Studies), Volume 17. Peter Lang Publishing, New York 1995, ISBN 0820427055 .
  • Mathurin de Lescure: Les Femmes philosophes . E. Dentu, Paris 1881.
  • Roger Marchal: Madame de Lambert et son milieu  (= Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), Volume 289. The Voltaire Foundation, Oxford 1991, ISBN 072940417X .
  • Amelia Gere Mason: An Antechamber of the Académie Française . In: The Women of the French Salons . The Century Co., New York 1891, pp. 135-145.
  • Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve [1850]: La Duchesse du Maine . In: Causeries du lundi , Volume III. Garnier frères, Paris 1859, pp. 206–228.
  • Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve [1851]: Madame de Lambert and Madame Necker . In: Causeries du lundi , Volume IV. Garnier frères, Paris 1859, pp. 217-239.
  • Lieselotte Steinbrügge: The moral sex. Theories and literary drafts on the nature of women in the French Enlightenment , Beltz, Weinheim / Basel; 2nd edition Metzler, Stuttgart 1992 ISBN 3-476-00834-7 .
  • this .: The Moral Sex. Woman's nature in the French Enlightment , Oxford University Press, New York 1995 ISBN 0-19-509493-X .
  • Jean de Viguerie: Histoire et dictionnaire du temps des Lumières, 1715–1789 . Robert Laffont, Paris 1995, ISBN 2221048105 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family genealogy
  2. ^ Marguenat de Courcelles de Lambert, Anne-Thérèse de: Oeuvres. Marc-Michel Bousquet et compagnie, (1748), p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Marguenat de Courcelles, Anne-Thérèse de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Madame de Lambert; Marquise de Saint-Bris; Marquise de Lambert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and salonnière
DATE OF BIRTH 1647
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1733
Place of death Paris