Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, Baroness of Saint-Martin-de-Ré /ɡəˈræn də ˌtɒnˈsæn/ (27 April 1682 – 4 December 1749) was a French salonist and...
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Tencin (French pronunciation: [tɑ̃sɛ̃]) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. It is part of the Grenoble urban unit (agglomeration)...
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Pierre-Paul Guérin de Tencin (Grenoble, 22 August 1679 – 2 March 1758), French ecclesiastic, was archbishop of Embrun and Lyon, and a cardinal. His sister...
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the home of Madame de Tencin." After Madame de Tencin's death in December 1749, Madame Geoffrin inherited many of de Tencin's former guests, thereby...
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Rohan-Polduc in 1776 out of the collections of the knight Louis Guérin de Tencin. It has been a legal deposit library since 1925, and it has the largest...
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is one of a series of six paintings by the artist for Pierre Guérin de Tencin and his archepiscopal palace at Lyon; the others were The Death of Lucretia...
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playwright Marivaux, the philosopher Condillac, as well as the Marquise de Tencin and the Marquise du Deffand. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was Dupin's secretary...
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His mother was Marie-Angélique de Tencin, sister of cardinal Pierre Guérin de Tencin and Claudine Guérin de Tencin, mother of d'Alembert. His brother...
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Pierre Guérin de Tencin (1679–1758), French ecclesiastic, archbishop of Embrun and Lyon and a cardinal. Claudine Guérin de Tencin (1682–1749) a French...
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also the lover of the famous courtesan and novelist Claudine Guérin de Tencin, and of Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Duchess of Berry, elder daughter...
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