Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 13, 2025
Mme. de Graffigny Baron d'Holbach Mme. d'Epinay's Portrait of Herself Mlle. Quinault Rousseau La Chevrette Grimm Diderot The Abbe Galiani Estimate of Mme. d'Epinay A few of the more radical and earnest of the philosophers rarely, if ever, appeared at the table of Mme. Geoffrin. They would have brought too much heat to this company, which discussed everything in a light and agreeable fashion.
"Are not those second-rate performances often the most charming," said Maltravers, "when the mediocrity of the intellect seems almost as if it were the effect of a touching, though too feeble, delicacy of sentiment? Madame D'Epinay's Memoirs are of this character.
When Madame d'Epinay's son-in-law emigrated at the Revolution, the Hermitage of which nothing now stands along with the rest of the estate became national property, and was bought after other purchasers by Robespierre, and afterwards by Grétry the composer, who paid 10,000 livres for it. Conf., ix. 255. Third letter to Malesherbes, 364-368. Conf., ix. 239. Conf., ix. 237, 238, and 263, etc.
See also p. 146. Pp. 282, 336, etc. Corr., i. 386. June 1757. Conf., ix. 355. For Madame d'Epinay's equally credible version, assigning all the stiffness and arrogance to Rousseau, see Mém., ii. 355-358. Conf., ix. 372. Corr., i. 404-416. Oct 19, 1757. Grimm to Diderot, in Madame d'Epinay's Mém. ii. 386. Nov. 3, 1757. D'Epinay, ii. 387. Nov. 3. Corr., i. 425. Nov. 8. Ib. 426.
By this time he had found out the secret of Madame d'Epinay's supposed illness and her anxiety to pass some months away from her family, and the share which Grimm had in it. This, however, does not make many passages of his letter any the less ungracious or unseemly.
"In the current of a more exciting literature few have had time for the second-rate writings of a past century." "Are not those second-rate performances often the most charming," said Maltravers, "when the mediocrity of the intellect seems almost as if it were the effect of a touching, though too feeble, delicacy of sentiment? Madame D'Epinay's Memoirs are of this character.
The circumstances of the marriage, which help to explain the lax view of the vows common among the great people of the time, are given with perhaps a shade too much dramatic colouring in Madame d'Epinay's Mém., i 101. Conf., ix. 281. D'Epinay, ii. 246. D'Epinay, ii. 269. Musset-Pathay has collected two or three trifles of her composition, ii. 136-138.
When our born solitary, wearied of Paris and half afraid of the too friendly importunity of Geneva, at length determined to accept Madame d'Epinay's offer of the Hermitage on conditions which left him an entire sentiment of independence of movement and freedom from all sense of pecuniary obligation, he was immediately exposed to a very copious torrent of pleasantry and remonstrance from the highly social circle who met round D'Holbach's dinner-table.
Again, she was jealous of her sister-in-law, Madame d'Houdetot, if for no other reason than that the latter, being the wife of a Norman noble, had access to the court, and this was unattainable by the wife of a farmer-general. Hence Madame d'Epinay's barely-concealed mortification when she heard of the meetings in the forest, the private suppers, the moonlight rambles in the park.
Saint Lambert formulated his atheism afterwards in the Catéchisme Universel. Madame d'Epinay's Mém., i. 443. Corr., i. 317. Sept. 14, 1756. Letter to Madame de Créqui, 1752. Corr., i. 171. Conf,., vii. 104. The Devin du Village was played at Fontainebleau on October 18, 1752, and at the Opera in Paris in March 1753. Madame de Pompadour took a part in it in a private performance.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking