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(Redirected from Madame Doublet) French scholar, writer, and salonnière

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Marie Anne Doublet and her brother, Father Legendre

Marie Anne Doublet (23 August 1677 – May 1771), known as Doublet de Persan, Legendre, was a French scholar, writer and salonnière. She was born and died in Paris.

After the death of her husband, Doublet was the friend and possible lover of Louis Petit de Bachaumont; she was a supporter of parlement. The salon, known as The Parish, met in Doublet's home within the walls of the convent of the Convent of the Filles-Saint-Thomas [fr]. It sponsored a clandestine newsletter, the Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la République des Lettres en France.

Members of the salon Doublet were against what they saw as rococo degeneracy and advocated for a strict and moralistic classicism. Doublet herself was a critique of rococo art; she and Bachaumont helped foster the classicist revival in the Academy in the 1740s and 1750s. A central figure of the salon Doublet was Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye.

References

  1. Fossier, François (14 November 2019). Les archives et l'Etat au XVIIIe siècle: Tome 1 : Les diplomatistes de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (in French). Editions L'Harmattan. p. 61. ISBN 978-2-14-013520-0.
  2. Russo, Elena (19 January 2007). Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France. JHU Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-8018-8476-4.
  3. Armstrong, Christopher Drew (15 April 2013). Julien-David Leroy and the Making of Architectural History. Routledge. pp. 38–40. ISBN 978-1-135-76396-1.


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