Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (25 September 1696 – 23 September 1780) was a French hostess and patron of the arts. Madame du Deffand was born at the Château...

Freedom: The life of Astolphe de Custine (2000), Benedetta Craveri's Madame Du Deffand and Her World (1994), and The Travels of Marco Polo (1984). In 1980...

Enlightenment. Madame du Deffand was an upper class French woman, who held weekly salons in Paris. Known for her intelligence and cynicism, Deffand became friends...

Calmann-Lévy (1888) Figures de femmes : Madame du Deffand, Madame d'Épinay, Madame Necker, Madame de Beaumont, Madame Récamier, etc., Calmann-Lévy (1889)...

of Lévis-Mirepoix, the Baroness Hervey and the Princess of Monaco. Madame du Deffand was also received, although perhaps she was the only one who spoke...

smallpox in late May was regretted by the friends of the ex-ministers, Madame du Deffand commenting: "The avenging angel has shielded his sword. We shall again...

Warsaw: Czytelnik. Perey, Lucien (1893). Le président Hénault et Madame du Deffand. La cour du régent, la cour de Louis XV et de Marie Leczinska (in French)...

ISBN 978-1-84371-182-7. Horace Walpole (1939). Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Madame Du Deffand and Wiart. Yale University Press. pp. 239–240....

French femme de lettres and salon hostess. Nicknamed "l'idole" by Madame du Deffand, she was a lady in waiting to the Duchess of Chartres and a mistress...

viscount was the British ambassador in Paris, where his close friend Madame du Deffand commented that his new wife "is pretty, she holds herself badly, and...