Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles

Anne -Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles (* 1647 in Paris, † July 12, 1733 in Paris), married Madame de Lambert, Marquise de Saint -Bris (* 1650), known as the Marquise de Lambert, was a French writer and known Salonnière.

Life and work

During the tutelage of Louis XIV, the Regency, was the court of the regent, Duke Philip II of Orléans, as immoral, the salon of the Marquise de Lambert, however, as a haven of decency and good taste.

Anne -Thérèse was the only daughter of Étienne de Marguenat, Seigneur de Courcelles († 1650), and his wife Monique Passart († 1692 ). Her father died early, when she was only three years old. 1666 she married the Marquis of Saint -Bris Henri de Lambert, lieutenant general and governor of Luxembourg.

In 1710 she opened her literary salon. Wednesdays they invited the High Society, Tuesday the literati. They tried to establish contacts between the two groups. In literary salon political and religious discussions were forbidden, but it was not quite conservative, but was very interested in Montesquieu's Persian Letters, reaching socially critical that he was elected to the Académie française. She was also one of the first ladies of high society, which started actor in her salon, for example, Adrienne Lecouvreur and Michel Baron.