Madame du Deffand and Her World
Benedetta Craveri · 1982
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Biography of Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, Madame du Deffand. Madame du Deffand, a popular and influential Parisian salon hostess, was widely respected for her keen wit and intellect, and she was a prolific correspondent with a number of notable thought & literary figures of her time. Her letters to people such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Fontenelle were published after her death by close friend Horace Walpole. Author Benedetta Craveri, a professor of French literature, originally published the biography in Italian as "Madame du Deffand e il suo mondo" in 1982. She won awards for the work in Italy & France - this U.S. edition & English translation was published a little over a decade later in 1994.
Book details
- Year
- 1982
- Publisher
- Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 488
- ISBN
- 9781870015790
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