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Charles de Montesquieu
Standard Name: Montesquieu, Charles de
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia Kristeva | This was originally titled from one of its four sections, an address to the person who founded the French organization SOS Racisme
. In a context of the spread of neo-Nazism in Europe (including the... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Meeke | The title-page specifies several of Du Deffand's correspondents, including Montesquieu
and Germaine de Staël
. Voltaire
's letters to Du Deffand receive special billing. Meeke presumably also provided the translations of The French Booksellers' Address... |
Textual Production | Jemima Tautphoeus | She wrote this novel during a long spell of ill health, and felt herself that it was her least successful. |
Reception | Jemima Kindersley | Historian Karen O'Brien
, who expresses regret that the rest of Kindersley's original essays remained unpublished, calls her a notable example of a female disciple of Montesquieu
who also appears to have absorbed some elements... |
Occupation | Anne-Thérèse de Lambert | In her second rue de Richelieu, residence, ATL
established a Tuesday salon which became, especially after 1710, a leader in French society and culture. She sought to emulate the salons of the marquise de Rambouillet |
Intertextuality and Influence | Germaine de Staël | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Françoise de Graffigny | Graffigny's novel (often referred to in England as Peruvian Letters) is a tour de force of colonial imagination and a response to her friend Montesquieu
's Lettres Persanes or Persian Letters, 1722. Each... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jemima Kindersley | JK
's style is plain, vigorous, and effective. She is consistently attentive to the details of women's lives and to the effects of history, politics, race, and religion in the various cultures she visits. Though... |
Friends, Associates | Anne-Thérèse de Lambert | The circle which ATL
gathered as a hostess included, besides Montesquieu
(who submitted all his manuscripts to her for comment), Dacier
and La Motte
, other eminent persons such as writers Marivaux
, Fontenelle
,... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Dacier | AD
frequented the salon of the writer Anne-Thérèse de Lambert
, where she became well acquainted with Antoine Houdart de La Motte
(a combatant on the other side of the Battle of the Ancients and... |
Friends, Associates | Françoise de Graffigny | She became acquainted with most of the intellectual and cultural leaders of French society. She visited Voltaire
and Emilie du Châtelet
at Cirey in 1738-9. These two, as well as other Enlightenment figures such as... |
Timeline
1673: François Poulain (or Poullain) de la Barre...
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1673
François Poulain (or Poullain) de la Barre
published at Paris his Cartesian treatise on gender equality, De l'égalité des deux sexes, which was translated into English four years later.
1721: Charles de Montesquieu published Lettres...
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1721
Charles de Montesquieu
published Lettres Persanes, which purport to be letters home from a Persian visiting Paris.
By July 1749: Charles de Montesquieu's De l'Esprit des...
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By July 1749
Charles de Montesquieu
's De l'Esprit des loix (in English On the Spirit of Laws: a key Enlightenment text) was published in London.
1755: Maurice-Quentin De La Tour painted Madame...
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1755
Maurice-Quentin De La Tour
painted Madame de Pompadour
(the Frenchking
's mistress, and a power in the land) sitting at a large (though extremely elegant) desk surrounded by learned folio volumes.
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