Suzanne Curchod

Suzanne Curchod (married Necker, born June 2, 1737 Crassier, Switzerland, † May 15, 1794 in Lausanne, Switzerland ) was an important Parisian salonière the Enlightenment. She was the wife of the French-Swiss banker and politician Jacques Necker and mother of the writer Madame de Staël.

Life and work

The highly educated daughter of an impecunious Reformed clergyman came to know as a teacher in Paris Necker, after they had been in 1757 briefly engaged to Edward Gibbon. After her marriage with Necker ( 1764) her house soon became the meeting point of great personalities of the Enlightenment. She herself was one of the regulars in Salon of the ' philosophes ' ​​, the Madame Helvetius maintained. As Necker under the new King Louis XVI. Had become Finance Minister, she turned her attention to the prison and hospital beings and founded in Paris in 1778 a hospital. Later, she was also active as an author and wrote, among other things, a memorandum on hospital services ( Mémoire sur l' Etablissement of hospices, 1786) and the font Réflexions sur le divorce ( = reflections on divorce, 1794). After the fall of Necker as a current Prime Minister (1789 ) and given the increasing revolutionary turmoil in France, she moved with him back to Switzerland.

Works

  • Mémoire sur l' établissement of hospices
  • Des inhumations précipitées, 1790
  • Réflexions sur le divorce, Lausanne 1794
  • Mélanges (1798-1801)
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