Madame Dupin (1706–1799)
Conocimiento común
- 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.