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Sophie de Condorcet (Meulan, 1764 – Paris, 8 September 1822), also known as Sophie de Grouchy and best known and styled as Madame de Condorcet, was a prominent French salon hostess from 1789 to the Reign of Terror, and again from 1799 until her death in 1822.
Sophie de Condorcet, the wife of the Marquis de Condorcet, ran a salon at the Hôtel des Monnaies in Paris, opposite the Louvre. Her salons were attended by several prominent philosophes and, at various times, Anne-Robert Turgot, Thomas Jefferson, the Scottish economist Adam Smith, Olympe de Gouges and Madame de Staël. Unlike Madame Roland, a ...
In 1786 Condorcet married Sophie de Grouchy, who was more than twenty years his junior. Sophie, reckoned one of the most beautiful women of the day, became an accomplished salon hostess as Madame de Condorcet, and also an accomplished translator of Thomas Paine and Adam Smith. She was intelligent and well educated, fluent in both English and ...
Marie-Jeanne "Manon" Roland de la Platière (Paris, March 17, 1754 – Paris, November 8, 1793), born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, and best known under the name Madame Roland [note 1] was a French revolutionary, salonnière and writer. Her letters and memoirs became famous for recording the state of mind that conditioned the events leading to the ...
Nina de Callias; Georges Callot; Marguerite Charpentier; Claude Catherine de Clermont; Louise Colet; Sophie de Condorcet; Anne-Marie Bigot de Cornuel; The Countess (courtesan) Marie Sophie de Courcillon; Marquise de Créquy; Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis; Anne-Charlotte de Crussol de Florensac; Suzanne Curchod
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Marquise de Caylus; Charlotte Charke; Émilie du Châtelet; Louise Rose Babaud de la Chaussade; Élisabeth Sophie Chéron; La Clairon; Babette Cochois; Anne-Hyacinthe de Colleville; Anne Félicité Colombe; Sophie de Condorcet; Sophie Ristaud Cottin; Marquise de Créquy; Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis