Françoise-Louise de Warens

Françoise- Louise de Warens, born Louise Éléonore de la Tour du Pil, baronne de ( born March 31, 1699 Vevey, † July 29, 1762 in Chambéry ), is now known primarily as temporarily important person of Jean -Jacques Rousseau.

Life

Her father was a doctor and her mother died when she was five years old. Her education took over the unmarried father's sisters, where she lived. Her father remarried and died when she was ten years old.

In 1714 she married Sébastien- Isaac de Loys, baron de Warens. Around the year 1719, she lived with her husband in Lausanne, where she was in a relationship with Etienne -Sigismond de Tavel, a citizen of Bern. In June 1726 the small river Veveyse overflowed its banks, and her husband was recruited for relief operations. They took the opportunity to leave him.

Madame de Warens ( as it is usually called ) converted in 1726 by the Protestant commitment to Catholicism and emigrated to the neighboring Duchy of Savoy, which was a virtually independent state at that time. She lived from 1726 initially in Annecy and later in Charmettes at Chambery. From the Duke of Savoy, Victor Amadeus II, she received an annual pension of 2500 pounds Piedmontese, with the task to advertise in the adjoining areas Calvinist Swiss region for the Catholic faith.

In 1728 she took the 15 -year-old Rousseau in their care who had just his hometown of Geneva turned his back and went on tour. She brought him to travel to Turin and there also convert to Catholicism. Later, she took him to quite himself and supported him, which only 13 years older lovingly called maman, in his efforts to form a self-taught. 1732 they finally made ​​him her lover. When he 1737/38 extended period was absent in winter, they replaced him through their new secretary and property manager Jean- Rodolphe Samuel Wintzenried ( 1716-1772 ), left him after his return, but for a while stay with him.

One last time they met Rousseau, who now lived for some time in Paris, where from 1745 to Thérèse Levasseur together, on the occasion of his trip to Geneva, which he undertook in 1754 to return to Protestantism and to accept the Geneva citizenship.