Category

18th-century French letter writers

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Germaine de Staël

Genevan-French author (1766-1817)

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

French portrait painter (1755–1842)

French revolutionary

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

French novelist, official and army general (1741–1803)

Ninon de Lenclos

French author, courtesan, freethinker, and patron of the arts (1620-1705)

Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon

Mistress and later secret wife of King Louis XIV of France (1635-1719)

Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchess of Orléans

German princess; wife of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans

Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse

French Salon-holder

Charles de Brosses

French writer (1709–1777)

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

French Roman Catholic mystic

Paul Louis Courier

French Hellenist and political writer (1772–1825)

Claudine Guérin de Tencin

French writer and salonist

Suzanne Curchod

French-Swiss salonist and writer (1737-1794)

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

French salon-holder

Sophie Ristaud Cottin

French writer (1770-1807)

Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin

French salon-holde (1695–1777)

Marie Jeanne Riccoboni

French novelist (1713–1792)

Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon

French royal (1676-1753)

Marie Anne de Mailly

18th-century French noblewoman

Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins

French noble (1642-1722)

Mademoiselle Aïssé

French letter writer

Jacques Mallet du Pan

Genevan writer (1749-1800)

Sophie d'Houdetot

French noblewoman

Antoinette Saint-Huberty

French operatic soprano (1756-1812)

Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius

French aristocrat (1722-1800)

Marguerite de Launay, baronne de Staal

French author and lady-in-waiting

Renée de Froulay, Marquise de Créquy

French writer (1714-1803)

Marie-Charlotte Hippolyte de Campet de Saujon

French countess and author

French Protestant personality (1711-1776)

Marie-Angélique de Mackau

Matthieu Marais

French jurist and writer