Sophie Arnould

Madeleine Sophie Arnould ( born February 14, 1744 Paris, † October 22, 1802 ) was a famous French actress, singer and salonière the Enlightenment.

Life

Sophie Arnould received a good education, and came as " apprentice " to the French court in the royal chapel. From there they took in 1757 to the Paris Opera, where she was the favorite of the public until 1778. Arnould shone as much by their pure, lively and expressive singing as it produces beautiful game.

Your audience, especially her admirer, Arnould compared with Ninon de Lenclos. In her salon she welcomed famous reconnaissance of their time as d' Alembert, Diderot, Mably, Duclos, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin.

Pierre -Joseph Bernard, Jean Dorat, Charles Simon Favart Antoine François Marmontel and have sung them. Your sometimes very biting wit was proverbial, so that Alberic Deville gathered her witticisms under the title " arnoldiana " and published after her death (1813 ).

Through the mediation of the Minister of Police Joseph Fouché granted to the State Pension and free lodging at the Hotel d' Angevillers, where she was also the center of a circle of poets, artists and philosophers.