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Born 1699 • Paris • France
Died 1777 (aged 78) • Paris • France
Mme de Tencin, lithograph by C. Pegeron
Claudine-Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin
French author
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Lady Ottoline Morrell
English patroness
Full-length portrait of Cardinal Richelieu by Philippe de Champaigne, showing him in red clerical robes holding a red book, standing beside a balustrade with a draped curtain behind.
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Charles Le Brun: Portrait of King Louis XIV
Louis XIV
king of France
Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
Francis I
Francis I
king of France
portrait of Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël
French-Swiss author
Stone effigy of Eleanor of Aquitaine on her tomb, shown lying down and holding an open book, with traces of blue, red, and white paint on her robes and veil.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
queen consort of France and England
Madame de Pompadour, detail of a portrait by François Boucher; in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour
French aristocrat
Margaret of Angoulême
Margaret of Angoulême
French queen consort and poet
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Jean de France, duc de Berry
French prince
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Madeleine de Scudéry
French novelist
Madame du Deffand, engraving by Forshel after a portrait by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle
Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
French woman of letters
Jacques-Louis David: Portrait of Madame Récamier
Madame de Récamier
French patroness
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Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard Bochart de Saron
French scientist
Ninon de Lenclos, portrait by an unknown artist, 17th century; in the Musée de Versailles, France.
Ninon de Lenclos
French courtesan
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Jean Grolier de Servières, vicomte d’Aguisy
French bibliophile
Madame d'Agoult, detail of a portrait by Henri Lehmann; in a private collection
Marie de Flavigny, countess d’Agoult
French author
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Julie de Lespinasse
French writer
Mme d'Épinay, detail of a pastel by Jean Étienne Liotard, c. 1759; in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva
Louise-Florence-Pétronille Tardieu d’Esclavelles, dame de la Live d’Épinay
French author