Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé
| Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
1599 Courtanvaux Castle, Bessé-sur-Braye |
| Died |
January 16, 1678 Port-Royal Abbey, Paris |
| Occupation | epigrammatist, salonist |
| Nationality | French |
| Notable works | Maximes de Madame la Marquise de Sablé (1678) |
Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé (1599 – January 16, 1678), French writer, was the daughter of Gilles de Souvré, marquis de Courtenvaux, tutor of Louis XIII, and marshal of France.[1]
Life
In 1614 she married Philippe Emmanuel de Laval, marquis de Sablé, who died in 1640, leaving her in somewhat straitened circumstances.[1] With her friend the comtesse de Saint Maure she took rooms in the Place Royale, Paris, and established a literary salon.[2] The class of literature, of which the Maximes of La Rochefoucauld is one of the best-known example, was originated here.[1]
The Maximes of the marquise de Sablé were in fact composed before those of La Rochefoucauld, though not published till after her death.[1] In 1655 she retired, with the comtesse de St Maur, to the Convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Marly, removing in 1661, when that establishment was closed, to Auteuil.[3] In 1669 she took up her residence in the Port Royal convent in Paris, where she died on the 16th of January 1678.[3]
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 Conley, John J. (2002). A suspicion of virtue : women philosophers in neoclassical France (1. publ. ed.). Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. pp. 20–41. ISBN 0801440203.
- ↑ Brown, Meg Lota; McBride, Kari Boyd (2005). Women's roles in the Renaissance (1st ed.). Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. p. 198. ISBN 0313322104.
- 1 2 Chisholm, Hugh (1910). Encyclopaedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. New York: Encyclopaedia britannica Co. p. 966.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sablé, Madeleine de Souvré, Marquise de". Encyclopædia Britannica. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 966.
External links
- The Maxims of Madame de Sablé—French and English
- Sablé, Madeleine de Souvré, Marquise De (1598—1678)—Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy