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Épinay, Louise Florence Pétronille

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Épinay, Louise Florence Pétronille (de Tardieu d'Esclavelles) La Live d' (lwēz flôräNs` pātrōnē`yə də tärdyö` dāklävĕl` lä lēv dāpēnā`), 1726–83, French woman of letters. Influential in the Enlightenment Enlightenment, term applied to the mainstream of thought of 18th-century Europe and America. Background and Basic Tenets


The scientific and intellectual developments of the 17th cent.
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, she was the friend of many of its leaders, especially Melchior Grimm Grimm, Friedrich Melchior, Baron , 1723–1807, German man of letters in France. He contributed to the Encyclopédie articles on music that were belligerently partial to Italian opera buffa.
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, her literary heir, and Diderot Diderot, Denis , 1713–84, French encyclopedist, philosopher of materialism, and critic of art and literature, b. Langres. He was also a novelist, satirist, and dramatist. Diderot was enormously influential in shaping the rationalistic spirit of the 18th cent.
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. She was Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques , 1712–78, Swiss-French philosopher, author, political theorist, and composer. Life and Works


Rousseau was born at Geneva, the son of a Calvinist watchmaker.
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's benefactress until 1757, when they quarreled, and subsequently they attacked each other in their writings. She wrote a treatise on the education of girls, Les Conversations d'Émilie (pub. 1775 though volume bears date 1774). Her memoirs and correspondence (1818, tr. 1897, 1930) give a vivid account of her circle.


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