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MARQUISE DE RENEE CAROLINE DE FROULLA...

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 411 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAROLINE DE FROULLAY See also:CREQUY (1714-1803)  , was See also:born on the 19th of See also:October 1714, at the See also:chateau of Monfleaux (See also:Mayenne), the daughter of See also:Lieutenant-See also:General See also:Charles See also:Francois de Froullay . She was educated by her maternal grandmother, and married in 1737 See also:Louis See also:Marie, See also:marquis de See also:Crequy (see above), who died four years after the See also:marriage . Madame de Crequy devoted herself to the care of her only son, who rewarded her with an ingratitude which was the See also:chief' sorrow of her See also:life . In 1755 she began to receive in See also:Paris, among her intimates being D'See also:Alembert and J . J . See also:Rousseau . She had none of the frivolity generally associated with the See also:women of her See also:time and class, and presently became extremely religious with inclinations to See also:Jansenism . D'Alembert's visits ceased when she adopted See also:religion, and she was nearly seventy when she formed the See also:great friendship of her life with Senac de Meilhan, whom she met in 1781, and with whom she carried on a See also:correspondence (edited by Edouard See also:Fournier, with a See also:preface by Sainte-Beuve in 1856) . She commented on and criticized Meilhan's See also:works and helped his reputation . She was arrested in 1793 and imprisoned in the See also:convent of See also:Les Oiseaux until the fall of See also:Robespierre (See also:July 1794) . The well-known Souvenirs de la marquise de Crequy (1710-,803), printed in 7 volumes, 1834-1835, and purporting to be addressed to her See also:grandson, Tancrede de Crequy, was the See also:production of a See also:Breton adventurer, See also:Cousin de Courchamps . The first two volumes appeared in See also:English in 1834 and were severely criticized in the Quarterly See also:Review .

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notice prefixed by Sainte-Beuve to the Lettres; P . L . See also:Jacob, Enigmes et decouvertes bibliographiques (Paris, 1866) ; See also:Querard, Supercheries litteraires, s.v . " Crequy "; L'See also:Ombre de la marquise de Crequy aux lecteurs See also:des souvenirs (1836) exposes the See also:forgery of the Mimoires .

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