Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse

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Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (9 November 1732 – 23 May 1776) was a French salon holder and letter writer. She held a prominent salon in Paris during the Enlightenment. She is best-known today, however, for her letters, first published in 1809, which offer compelling accounts of two tragic love affairs.

Early life

Julie-Jeanne-Éléonore de Lespinasse was born in Lyon, the illegitimate daughter of Julie-Claude-Hilaire d’Albon, who was the sole heir of an old family.

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Bibliography

• Strachey, Lytton. Biographical Essays.

Further reading

• Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Double Heart: A Study of Julie de Lespinasse. 1931.
• Segur, Marquis de (Pierre Marie Maurice Henri, comte de Segur). Julie de Lespinasse By the Marquis de Segur. Translated from the French by P. H. Lee Warner. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1907.
• Rice, John A., "Women in Love: Gluck's Orpheus as a Source of Romantic Consolation in Vienna, Paris, and Stockholm."