Madame Du Deffand and her world
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Word Count
120,250 words, Guess
Page Count
481 pages
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- ISBN-101870015517
- ISBN-139781870015516
- Library of Congress Control Number93172564
- OCLC Control Number32358545
- Better World Books9781870015516
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL1496868M
Classifications
- DDC848/.509
- DDCB
- LCCPQ1981.D65 C713 1994b
Description
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.
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