Anne-Thérèse de Lambert

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ATL is remembered both for the Paris salon which she ran during the early decades of the eighteenth century, which was highly influential for French literature and culture, and for her writings. These include advice-writings, a treatise on the status of women, and essays on friendship, old age, and other popular topics. They were just as influential in English translation as in their original form.
Photograph of a reversed engraving of Anne-Thérèse de Lambert, taken from a painting by Nicolas de Largillierre, c. 1710. She is shown from the waist up wearing (in the original) a blue velvet cloak over a gold-coloured bodice and white chemise, pinned at the front with a brooch. Her hair is powdered and frizzed in a high hair-style. The engraving contains the portrait in an oval frame with a scroll beneath, the whole apparently standing on a plinth. The scroll is engraved with her name and the salient fa

Milestones

25 September 1647
Marie-Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles (later ATL ) was born in Paris, an only daughter and apparently an only child.
Spencer, Samia I., editor. Writers of the French Enlightenment I. Gale, 2005.
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Hayley, Eliza, and Anne-Thérèse de Lambert. “Introductory Letter to William Melmoth, Esq.”. Essays on Friendship and Old-Age, Dodsley, 1780, pp. 5 - 34.
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12 July 1733
ATL died in Paris, after carrying on her salon to the end of her life.
Fassiotto, Marie-José. Madame de Lambert. Peter Lang, 1984.
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Biography

Birth and Family

25 September 1647
Marie-Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles (later ATL ) was born in Paris, an only daughter and apparently an only child.
Spencer, Samia I., editor. Writers of the French Enlightenment I. Gale, 2005.
289
Hayley, Eliza, and Anne-Thérèse de Lambert. “Introductory Letter to William Melmoth, Esq.”. Essays on Friendship and Old-Age, Dodsley, 1780, pp. 5 - 34.
7-8

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