Julie de lespinasse biography of william hill

Lespinasse is largely neither the author nor the copyist, and most of her manuscripts were hers only in the sense that she owned them..

Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse

French salon-holder, writer (1732–1779)

Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (9 November 1732 – 23 May 1776) was a French salon holder and letter writer.

The first instruction given by Julie de Lespinasse in her last will and testament, addressed to D'Alembert as her executor.

Was necessary that her birth, though its approach was doubtless known to all the neighbourhood, should not take place at her mother's house.

Lespinasse is largely neither the author nor the copyist, and most of her manuscripts were hers only in the sense that she owned them.

Letters of Mlle.

" Julie de Lespinasse but echoes the general opinion when she says to him: " There are names made for history: yours will always excite admiration." No.

She held a prominent salon in Paris during the Enlightenment. She is best-known today, however, for her letters, first published in 1809, which offer compelling accounts of two tragic love affairs.

Early life

Julie-Jeanne-Éléonore de Lespinasse was born in Lyon, the illegitimate daughter of Julie-Claude-Hilaire d’Albon, who was the sole heir of an old family.^[1]^[2] Her mother, who was married to the Comte d'Albon, separated from her husband at the time of her birth, and the baby was baptized as the daughter of two fictitious persons, 'Claude Lespinasse' and his wife 'Julie Navarre'.^[1] The mystery of who her father really was did not get cleared up until her first careful biographer, the Marquis de Ségur (Pierre Marie Maurice Henri marquis de Ségur, 1853-