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Madame Dupin (1706–1799)

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Nombre canónico
Madame Dupin
Otros nombres
Fontaine, Louise Marie Madeleine
de Fontaine, Louise-Marie-Madeleine Guillaume
de Chenonceau, Louise-Marie Madeleine Dupin
Dupin, Louise Marie-Madeleine Fontaine
Fecha de nacimiento
1706-10-28
Fecha de fallecimiento
1799-11-20
Género
female
Nacionalidad
France
Lugar de nacimiento
Paris, France
Lugar de fallecimiento
Château de Chenonceau, Indre-et-Loire, France
Lugares de residencia
Château de Chenonceau, Indre-et-Loire, France
Paris, France
Ocupaciones
salonniere
writer
letter writer
Relaciones
Sand, George (step-great-granddaughter)
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Voltaire
Biografía breve
Louise Marie-Madeleine de Fontaine, later Madame Dupin, was born in Paris. According to her baptismal records, she was a daughter of Jean-Louis-Guillaume de Fontaine, commissioner of the French Navy, and his wife Marie-Anne-Armande Dancourt, known as Manon. However, other records indicate that Louise's real father was Samuel Bernard, a banker. Manon's husband recognized Louise as his own child, along with two other daughters born from the affair with Bernard. In 1722, at age 16, Louise was married to Claude Dupin, a widower in his forties with a young son (who would later became in the grandfather of George Sand). In 1733, Dupin, who had made a fortune as a tax and customs collector (fermier-générale), bought the magnificent Château de Chenonceau in the Loire Valley. There and in their homes in Paris, Madame Dupin hosted a famous salon that attracted the leading artists, writers, and intellectuals of the day, including Voltaire, baron de Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Madame Dupin also wrote a feminist book, On the Equality of Men and Women, which was never published. Some of her writings and letters were published in 1884 as Le portefeuille de madame Dupin: Dame de Chenonceaux, edited by Gaston de Villeneuve-Guibert, her great-nephew, who inherited the château and its archives.

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