Translation of Laura Ensor and E. Bartow.
MADAME DU DEFFAND
(MARIE DE VICHY-CHAMROND)
(1697-1780)
Madame Du Deffand
adame du Deffand is interesting as a personality, a type, and an influence. Living through nearly the whole of the eighteenth century, she assimilated its wealth of new ideas, and was herself a product of the thought-revolution already kindling the spirit of 1789.