MARQUISE DE RENEE See also: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
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
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
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See also:Rousseau
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She had none of the frivolity generally associated with the See also:women of her See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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
.
See the See also:notice prefixed by Sainte-Beuve to the Lettres; P
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L
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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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