Marie therese geoffrin biography
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arie Thérèse Rodet G was born in Paris in 1699. Her father was a valet-de-chambre and her mother was the daughter of a middle class banker. Marie was orphaned at age seven and raised by her grandmother, Madame Chemineau, who valued self-education. She prepared Marie-Thérèse religiously, morally, and socially for society; she cultivated independent thought and reason in her granddaughter who educated her to the little extent that girls of her era were educated.
On 19 July 1713, fourteen-year-old Marie Thérèse married fifty-year-old Peter Francis Geoffrin, a wealthy manufacturer, and the prestigious director and a shareholder in the royal glass-works, Compagnie de Saint-Gobain. Geoffrin gave birth to two children, a son who died at the age of ten, and a daughter, Mme de la Ferté-Imbault. Who later wrote of her parents' marriage , her competition with Geoffrin, and the ultimate blessing of growing up among "great minds."
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Marie-Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin was a French salon holder, or salonnière, who hosted many influential philosophes and encyclopédistes of her time. She earned international recognition for her association with several prominent dignitaries and public figures from different countries of Europe. She fryst vatten also famous for her patronage and dedication to talented artists and philosophical men of letters that frequented her house.
Geoffrin had qualities such as politeness and civility that stimulated and regulated intellectual discussions with great naturality. Her actions as a Parisian salonnière (her salon was placed at Rue Saint-Honoré) exemplify several of the most important characteristics of Enlightenment sociability.
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Madame Geoffrin has been referred to as one of the leading female figures in the French Enlightenment, however, she didn’t receive a formalised education, since the notion of female education in 18th century France was quite contentious. I
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Geoffrin, Marie Thérèse (1699–1777)
One of the most famous of the 18th-century salonnières, whose salon was the intellectual home of influential writers, philosophers, and artists of the period, including the Encyclopedists, many of whom received her financial support . Name variations: Geofrin. Pronunciation: Marie Tur-ESS Jeff-RAN. Born Marie Thérèse Rodet in 1699 in Paris, France; died on October 6, 1777, in Paris; daughter of Pierre Rodet (a valet de chambre of the French royal court) and the former Mlle Chemineau (daughter of a banker); married Pierre François Geoffrin, on July 19, 1713; children: Marie Thérèse Geoffrin, later the Marquise de la Ferté-Imbault (b. 1715) and a son (b. 1717) who did not survive childhood.
Attended salon of the Marquise de Tencin, which opened her intellectual world (1730); established her salon (1737); supported the work of the Encyclopedists, including Diderot, D'Alembert, and many others (1750s–60s); commissioned many works of art,