Marie Anne Doublet (23 August 1677 – May 1771), known as Doublet de Persan, Legendre, was a French scholar, writer and
salonnière. She was born and died in Paris.
After the death of her husband, Doublet was the friend and possible lover of
Louis Petit de Bachaumont; she was a supporter of
parlement
Under the French Ancien Régime, a ''parlement'' () was a provincial appellate court of the Kingdom of France. In 1789, France had 13 ''parlements'', the original and most important of which was the ''Parlement'' of Paris. Though both th ...
. The salon, known as The Parish, met in Doublet's home within the walls of the convent of the . It sponsored a clandestine newsletter, the
''Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la République des Lettres en France''.
Members of the salon Doublet were against what they saw as
rococo
Rococo, less commonly Roccoco ( , ; or ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpte ...
degeneracy and advocated for a strict and moralistic classicism. Doublet herself was a critique of rococo art; she and Bachaumont helped foster the classicist revival in the Academy in the 1740s and 1750s. A central figure of the salon Doublet was
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (June 1697 – 1 March 1781) was a French historian, classicist, philologist and lexicographer.
Biography
From an ancient family, his father Edme had been gentleman of the bedchamber to the Philip I, ...
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French salon-holders
1677 births
1771 deaths
18th-century French women writers
18th-century French writers
Writers from Paris
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