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9781108034814

The Salon of Madame Necker

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    9781108034814

  • ISBN10:

    1108034810

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-12-08
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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Summary

Suzanne Curchod (1737-94) was living at Lausanne when she agreed to marry the young Edward Gibbon, but the engagement was broken off. Employed as companion to the then fiancée of Jacques Necker (1732-1804), later the finance minister of Louis XVI, she married him in 1764. Their only daughter, Anne Louise Germaine, is better known as Madame de Stael. Madame Necker was eager for her husband, a wealthy banker, to pursue a political career, but Jacques Necker's efforts towards financial reform made him unpopular at court, and his dismissal in July 1789 was one of the triggers for the French Revolution. His subsequent failure to control events led to his retirement to Switzerland in 1790. Volume 2 of this biography, written by a descendant, the comte d'Haussonville, and published in English in 1882, covers the events leading to the Revolution, and the exile and death of Madame Necker.

Table of Contents

The archives at Coppet
The Curchod family - the parsonage at Crassier - society in Lausanne
Gibbon
Death of M. and Mme. Curchod - Mme. de Vermenoux - departure for Paris - M. Necker - marriage
The fridays: Marmontel, and the Abbé Morellet
Grimm and Diderot
D'Alembert - Mademoiselle de Lespinasse - the Abbé Galliani - Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - Dorat
The ladies: Madame de Vermenoux - Madame Geoffrin - La Maréchale de Luxembourg - La Duchesse de Lauzun
La Marquis de Deffand - La Marquise de la Ferté-Imbault - Madame de Marchais
La Comtesse d'Houdetot
The gentlemen: Moultou
Buffon: his correspondence with Madame Necker - his last days
Thomas
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