Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse
Jeanne Julie de Lespinasse ( born November 10, 1732 in Lyon, † May 22, 1776 in Paris) was a French Salonnière the Enlightenment.
Life
Julie comes from an extramarital relationship her mother Julie d' Albon (1695-1748) with the Count Gaspard Nicolas de Vichy (1699-1781), a brother of the Marquise du Deffand. It was named after an estate Lespinasse. For a while she lived in a monastery. Then she was first a teacher and was taken in 1754 by her aunt, the blind becoming Madame du Deffand, in whose salon in Paris. The latter was pulled after the death of her husband, the Marquis du Deffand (1688-1750) in the former apartment of Madame de Montespan in a former convent, couvent des Filles de Saint- Joseph in the rue Saint -Dominique in Paris. In April 1754 Julie de Lespinasse so attracted to her aunt, first lived in a carriage house and later in a room above the apartment in the rue Saint -Dominique. Julie helped her aunt align and receipt of salon companies and made many acquaintances. There she went a deep platonic partnership with the reconnaissance D' Alembert.
Marquise du Deffand was blind and had the habit of only late at night to receive. Guests preferring to first seek the company of Lespinasse, and only then went to the older hostess. This led in May of 1764 to break the women, so the Julie Lespinasse was forced to seek his own place to live. They chose as their new home, a three-story house at the intersection of Rue de Bellechasse and n ° 6 rue Saint -Dominique about a hundred meters from their previous place of residence.
There, she founded her own salon with the help of Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin and the Marschallin de Luxembourg ( 1734-1818 ). There the greatest writers and philosophers perverted their time, especially the encyclopedist, as their " muse ", she was often referred to. You also belonged to the salon of the " philosophes ," said Madame Helvetius board.
However, although not particularly pretty, and later drawn (according to contemporary statements ) by smallpox, they must have had an irresistible magical attraction, because she had quite a few love affairs, among others, José Pignatelli ( 1737-1811 ), Marquis de Mora ( 1744 - 1774) and Jacques -Antoine- Hippolyte, comte de Guibert, where she wrote passionate love letters, which were later published.
Among the most important philosophical works of a trilogy that arose in 1769 and was written in dialogue form, is expected to Le Rêve de d' Alembert (1769 ). In this fictional work of Denis Diderot he be himself, Mlle de Lespinasse, D' Alembert and Théophile de Bordeu staged.
German editions
- The love letters of Julie de Lespinasse. Transferring and introduced by Arthur Schurig. Lehmann, Dresden 1920 ( scans in DjVu format, e- text: Project Gutenberg -DE), Reprint, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86741-217-9
- Letters of a passion. From 1773 to 1776. CH Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42336-1 ( online readable in Google Book Search ) ( Untitled ) Extract, dated Tuesday, December 1795 (no date). In: Robert Darnton: George Washington's false teeth or again: What is Enlightenment? ibid 1997, ISBN 3-406-42367-1, pp. 35f. (via reading, letter to Jean -Jacques Comte de Guibert, from previous volume book p 444F. )