Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin ( Events March 4 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania. ...1681 _ December 4 is the 338th day (339th on leap years) of the Gregorian calendar. ...4 December Events While in debtors prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). ...1749) was a France _ Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...French A courtesan is a person paid and/or supported for the giving of social companionship and intimate liaisons to one or more partners. ...courtesan and The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ...author.

Claudine was born in View of Grenoble, 2002, with the snowy peaks of the Dauphiné Alps Location within France Grenoble ( Occitan: Grasanòbol) is a city and commune in south_east France, situated at the foot of the Alps, at the confluence of the Drac into the Isère River. ...Grenoble, France where her father, Antoine Guérin, sieur de Tencin, was president of the parliament. Claudine was brought up at a This article is about an abbey as a religious building. ...convent near Grenoble and, at the wish of her parents, took the Frances Perkins wearing a veil after the death of president Roosevelt Veils are articles of clothing, worn almost exclusively by women, which cover some part of the head or face. ...veil, but broke her vows and succeeded, in Events August 1 _ George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain. ...1714, in gaining formal permission from the Clement XI, né Giovanni Francesco Albani (July 23, 1649 _ March 19, 1721) was pope from 1700 to 1721. ...Pope Clement XI for her secularisation. She joined her sister Mme. de Ferriol in The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...Paris, where she soon established a salon, frequented by wits and roués. Among her numerous lovers were the Chevalier Louis_Camus Destouches, the duc de Richelieu, and according to her biographer many other persons of distinction.

The last of her liaisons had a tragic ending. Charles_Joseph de la Fresnaye committed suicide in her house, and Mme. de Tencin spent some time in the Châtelet in consequence, but was soon liberated as the result of a declaration of her innocence by the Grand Consul. From this time she devoted herself to political intrigue, especially for the preferment of her brother the abbé Tencin, who became archbishop of Embrun and received a cardinal's hat. Eventually she formed a literary salon, which had among its habitués Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, also referred to as Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle (February 11, 1657 - January 9, 1757) was a French author. ...Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu ( January 18, 1689 – February 10, 1755) was a French political thinker who lived during the Enlightenment and is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers, taken for granted in modern discussions of government and...Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Charles_Irénée Castel, abbé de Saint_Pierre (February 18, 1658 - April 29, 1743), French writer, was born at the château de Saint_Pierre_Église near Cherbourg. ...Charles_Irénée Castel de Saint_Pierre, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (February 4, 1688 _ February 12, 1763), French novelist and dramatist, was born at Paris. ...Pierre de Marivaux, Alexis Piron (July 9, 1689 _ January 21, 1773), was a French epigrammatist and dramatist. ...Alexis Piron and others.

Hers was the first of the Parisian literary salons to which distinguished foreigners were admitted, and among her English guests were Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678 _ December 12, 1751) was an English statesman and writer. ...Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke and Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (22 September 1694 _ 24 March 1773) was a British statesman and man of letters. ...Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. By the good sense with which she conducted what she called her menagerie, she almost succeeded in effacing the record of her early disgrace.

She was a novelist of considerable merit. Her novels have been highly praised for their simplicity and charm, the last qualities the circumstances of the writer's life would lead one to expect in her work. The best of them is Mémoires du comte de Comminges (1735), which appeared, as did the other two, under the name of her nephews, MM. d'Argental and Pont de Veyle, the real authorship being carefully concealed.

Her works, with those of Madame de La Fayette (baptized March 18, 1634 _ May 25, 1693) was a French writer, the alleged author of La Princesse de Clèves, Frances first historical novel and often taken to be one of the earliest European novels of its day. ...Marie_Madeleine de La Fayette, were edited by Etienne and Jay (Paris, Events January 4 _ King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies dies and is succeeded by his son Francis I of the Two Sicilies. ...1825); her novels were reprinted, with introductory matter by Lescure, in 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...1885; and her correspondence in the Lettres de Mmes. de Villars, de La Fayette et de Tencin (Paris, Events January 11 _ Michigan Territory is created. ...1805_ Events February 12 _ Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands February 12 – serious cholera epidemic begins in London from the East London. ...1832).

This article incorporates text from the The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...public domain The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica ( 1911) in many ways represents the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ...1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.