Mémoires - Epinay, Louise marquise d' 1726-1783; Boiteau, Paul 1830-1886 (Paris Fasquelle)
Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles d'Épinay (1726-1783), better known as Mme d'Épinay, was a French writer, a saloniste and woman of fashion, known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as her acquaintanceship with Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Baron d'Holbach and other French men of letters during the Enlightenment. She was also one of many women referenced in Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' as an example of noble expansion of women's rights during the 18th century.
The pseudo-memoires of Louise d'Epinay are written in the form of a sort of autobiographic romance, 'L'Histoire de Madame de Montbrillant', begun when she was thirty but never published in her lifetime. It intersperses fictionalized set pieces exhibiting the sensibilité of the earliest generation of Romantics, with genuine letters and autobiographical material. Bequeathed to Baron Grimm, a mangled version of the manuscript was edited by J. P. A. Parison and J. C. Brunet (Paris, 1818) as 'Mémoires et correspondance de Madame d'Épinay' with all the names changed to identify the supposed originals: Madame d'Épinay figures in it as Madame de Montbrillant, and René is generally recognized as Rousseau, Volx as Grimm, Gamier as Diderot, who is sometimes credited with major interventions in the text. The work has had a checkered career since. The only accurate edition is George Roth, ed. Les Pseudo-mémoires de Madame d'Épinay, 3 vols., 1951.
Ex libris Charles François de Fontanellaz (plate), lived from 1891-1956 and was editor of 'la Revue Automobile'.
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