Adélaïde de la Briche

Portrait of Adélaïde de la Briche by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.

Adélaïde de la Briche (1755–1844) was a French travel writer, memoirist, and salon-holder.[1][2] She was married to and was eventually the widow of Alexis Janvier de La Live de La Briche, Introducer of Ambassadors and Private Secretary to the Queen.[3] She was also part of the post-revolutionary bourgeoisie in France.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Anne Commire, ed. (January 1, 2007). "Briche, Adelaide de la (1755–1844)". Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages.
  2. ↑ Steven D. Kale; Steven Kale (19 December 2005). French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848. JHU Press. pp. 97–. ISBN 978-0-8018-8386-6.
  3. ↑ François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand (1902). The Memoirs of François René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Sometime Ambassador to England: Being a Translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos of the Mémoires D'outre-tombe, with Illustrations from Contemporary Sources. Freemantle and Company. pp. 191–.
  4. ↑ Anca I. Lasc; Georgina Downey; Mark Taylor (22 October 2015). Designing the French Interior: The Modern Home and Mass Media. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 75–. ISBN 978-0-85785-779-8.

Further reading

  • de Zurich, Pierre (1934). Une femme heureuse (1755-1844) Madame de la Briche : sa famille, son salon le château du Marais, d'apres ses memoires, sa correspondance et d'autres documents inedits. E. du Broccard.


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