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See also: part in French See also: literary and See also: artistic See also: life, was See also: born in See also: Paris n [699
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She married, on the 19th of See also: July 1713, See also: Pierre See also: Francois Geoffrin, a See also: rich manufacturer and See also: lieutenant-colonel of the See also: National Guard, who died in 175o
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It was not till Mme Geoffrin was nearly fifty years of age that we begin to hear of her as a power in Parisian society
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She had learned much from Mme de Tencin, and about 1748 began to gather round her a literary and artistic circle
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She had every week two dinners, on Monday for artists, and on Wednesday for her See also: friends the Encyclopaedists and other men of letters
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She received many foreigners of distinction, Hume and Horace Walpole among others
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Walpole spent much See also: time in her society before he was finally attached to Mme du See also: Deffand, and speaks of her in his letters as a See also: model of See also: common sense
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She was indeed somewhat of a small See also: tyrant in her circle
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She had adopted the pose of an old woman earlier than necessary, and her coquetry, if
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such it can be called, took the See also: form of being See also: mother and See also: mentor to her guests, many of whom were indebted to her generosity for substantial help
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Although her aim appears, to have been to have the Encyclopedie in conversation and See also: action around her, she was extremely displeased with any of her friends who were so rash as to incur open disgrace
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See also: Marmontel lost her favour after the official censure of Belisaire, and her advanced views did not prevent her from observing the forms of See also: religion
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A devoted Parisian, Mme Geoffrin rarely See also: left the city, so that her journey to Poland in 1766 to visit the See also: king, Stanislas Poniatowski, whom she had known in his early days in Paris, was a
See also: great event in her life
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Her experiences induced a sensible gratitude that she had been born " Francaise " and " particuliere." In her last illness her daughter, Therese, marquise de la Ferte Imbault, excluded her mother's old friends so that she might die as a See also: good Christian, a proceeding wittily described by the old lady: " My daughter is like Godfrey de See also: Bouillon, she wished to defend my See also: tomb from the infidels." Mme Geoff rin died in Paris on the 6th of See also: October
1777
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See See also: Correspondence inedite du roi Stanislas Auguste Poniatowski et
de Madame Geoffrin, edited by the comte de 1\,Iouy (1875) ; P. de See also: Segur, Le Royaume de la rue See also: Saint-Honore, Madame Geoffrin et sa fille (1897) ; A
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Tornezy, Un Bureau d'esprit au X VIIIe siecle: le See also: salon de Madame Geoff rin (1895) ; and See also: Janet Aldis, Madame Geoffrin, her Salon and her Times, 1750-1977 (1905)
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