Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé

Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé
Born 1599
Courtanvaux Castle, Bessé-sur-Braye
Died (1678-01-16)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), was a French writer and salonniére.

Life

She was the daughter of Gilles de Souvré, marquis de Courtenvaux, tutor of Louis XIII, and marshal of France.[1]

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 January 16, 1678.[3]

Notes

  1. 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. 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.
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