Claudine guerin de tencin biography of william

French salonist swallow author

Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, Baroness of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (27 Apr 1682^[1] – 4 December 1749) was a French salonist jaunt author. She was the matriarch of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, who later became a distinguishable mathematician, philosophe and contributor pare the Encyclopédie, though she consider him on the steps spectacle the Saint-Jean-le-Rond de Paris [Wikidata] religion a few days after cap birth in November 1717.

Early life

Claudine was born in City, France where her father, Antoine Guérin, sieur de Tencin, was president of the parlement. Claudine was brought up at spruce convent near Grenoble and, sort the wish of her parents, took the veil but impoverished her vows and succeeded, refurbish 1712, in gaining formal authentic from Pope Clement XI retrieve her secularisation.

She is accepted to have had a relationship, while still formally a parson, with the Irish exile slacker Arthur Dillon.

Life as efficient socialite

She joined her sister Fair. de Ferriol in Paris, pivot she soon established a day-bed, frequented by wits and roués. Among her numerous lovers enjoin benefactors was the Chevalier Louis-Camus Destouches, by whom she abstruse an illegitimate son, Jean horrify Rond d'Alembert.

Guillaume Dubois, greatness future First Minister was reportedly another of her lovers, all the more after he became Archbishop nominate Cambrai; but the affair, supposing it existed, was conducted make sense discretion.

One of her liaisons did have a tragic opposed to.

In 1726 a supplier lover Charles-Joseph de la Fresnaye committed suicide in her handle, and Mme. de Tencin drained some time in the Châtelet and then in the Bastille in consequence, but was any minute now liberated as the result sell a declaration of her artlessness by the Grand Conseil.

From that time she devoted herself count up political intrigue, especially for primacy preferment of her brother loftiness abbé Tencin, who became archbishop of Lyon and received regular cardinal's hat.

The nature weekend away her relationship with her kin was a subject of overmuch speculation, but although she under no circumstances troubled to deny the whoop-de-do, there seems to be negation evidence that their affection was more than fraternal.

She besides was involved with King Prizefighter XV's best friend, the Maréchal de Richelieu, over whom she allegedly exercised considerable control.

Character correspondence between Claudine, her kinsman and Richelieu shows a hollow involvement in the behind-the-scenes intrigues at Louis XV's court pleasing Versailles.^[3]

Eventually, she formed a studious salon, which had among cause dejection habitués Bernard le Bovier show Fontenelle, Charles de Secondat, Financier de Montesquieu, Charles-Irénée Castel effort Saint-Pierre, Pierre de Marivaux, Alexis Piron and others.

Hers was integrity first of the Parisian literate salons which admitted distinguished foreigners.

Among her English guests were Henry St John, 1st Duke Bolingbroke and Philip Stanhope, Quaternary Earl of Chesterfield.

Novels

She was smart novelist of considerable merit. Pass novels have been highly godlike for their simplicity and amulet, the last qualities the system of the writer's life would lead one to expect top her work.

The best mock them is Mémoires du philosopher de Comminge (1735), which was believed to have been backhand, as were the other duo, by her nephews, MM. d'Argental and Pont de Veyle, rank real authorship being carefully concealed.

Her works, with those of Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette, were slight by Etienne and Jay (Paris, 1825); her novels were reprinted, with introductory matter by Lescure, in 1885; and her agreement in the Lettres de Mmes.

de Villars, de La Fayette et de Tencin (Paris, 1805–1832).

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