Madame Necker (Suzanne Curchod).

Suzanne Curchod (1737–6 May 1794) was the wife of Jacques Necker. She hosted one of the most celebrated salons of the Ancien Régime. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 436 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (628 × 863 pixel, file size: 79 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Suzanne Curchod (Madame Jacques Necker) (1739-1794) Source : http://www. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 436 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (628 × 863 pixel, file size: 79 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Suzanne Curchod (Madame Jacques Necker) (1739-1794) Source : http://www. ... is the 126th day of the year (127th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1794 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Jacques Necker Jacques Necker (September 30, 1732 – April 9, 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss origin and finance minister of Louis XVI. // Necker was born in Geneva, Switzerland. ... A Salon of Ladies by Abraham Bosse A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation and readings, often consciously following Horaces definition of the... Ancien Régime, a French term meaning Former Regime, but rendered in English as Old Rule, Old Order, or simply Old Regime, refers primarily to the aristocratic social and political system established in France under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties. ...

Daughter of the pastor of the village of Crassier in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, Suzanne was well educated but poor. As a young woman she met the historian Edward Gibbon, who wished to marry her, but paternal disapproval on both sides and Suzanne's refusal to leave Switzerland for England thwarted the plans. In 1764 she married the ambitious Swiss financier Jacques Necker. They had one child, a daughter named Germaine, better known as Madame de Staël. Crassier is a municipality in the district of Nyon of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. ... The Canton of Vaud is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland located in the southwestern part of the country. ... Edward Gibbon (1737–1794). ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem specific to England — the United Kingdom anthem is God Save the Queen. ... Jacques Necker Jacques Necker (September 30, 1732 – April 9, 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss origin and finance minister of Louis XVI. // Necker was born in Geneva, Switzerland. ... Madame de Staël Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (April 22, 1766 – July 14, 1817) was a French author who determined literary tastes of Europe at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. ...

In 1776 her husband became Controller-General of Finances, head of the French finance ministry, this in spite of the double disadvantage of his protestant religion and Swiss origins. Much of this success he owed to his wife's salon, where the luminaries of Parisian society gathered to discuss art and literature, and to flirt and gossip. Among the regular visitors were Marmontel, La Harpe, Buffon, Grimm, Mably, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and the compilers of the Encyclopédie including Diderot and d'Alembert. Madame Necker's salons were also a meetingplace for Swiss expatriats such as Madame Geoffrin and the Marquise du Deffand. The Controller-General of Finances (Contrôleur général des finances) was the name of the minister in charge of finances in France from 1661 to 1791. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) The Eiffel Tower in Paris, as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Jean-François Marmontel (July 11, 1723 - December 31, 1799) was a French historian and writer, a member of the Encyclopediste movement. ... Jean-François de la Harpe (November 20, 1739 - February 11, 1803), French critic, was born in Paris of poor parents. ... Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, by François-Hubert Drouais (1727-1775). ... Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (December 26, 1723 – December 19, 1807), was an author, and the son of a German pastor. ... Gabriel Bonnot de Mably Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (Grenoble, March 14, 1709 – April 2, 1785 in Paris), sometimes known as Abbé de Mably, was a French philosopher and politician. ... Jacques-Henri Bernardin Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (January 19, 1737 - January 21, 1814) was a French writer and botanist. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... Denis Diderot Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713 - July 31, 1784) was a French writer and philosopher. ... Jean le Rond dAlembert, pastel by Maurice Quentin de La Tour Jean le Rond dAlembert (November 16, 1717 – October 29, 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher. ... Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin (1699 - October 6, 1777) was a French hostess who played an interesting part in French literary and artistic life. ... Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697 - September 23, 1780) was a French hostess and patron of the arts. ...

Life in Paris, and her husband's dislike of bluestocking authors prevented her from pursuing her interest in writing. Her surviving writings are few: Mémoire sur l'Etablissement des hospices (1786) and Réflexions sur le divorce (1794). She devoted considerable time to ensuring that their daughter Germaine received the very best education available.

After the fall of her husband from power in 1790, the Neckers left Paris and returned to Switzerland. Suzanne died at the castle of Coppet, in Vaud, in 1794. Coppet is a village in the Nyon district in Canton Vaud in Switzerland, on the Lake of Geneva. ...

In Paris a hospital she founded in 1784 still bears the Necker name and today treats sick children.

Reference

• (French) Paul-Gabriel d'Haussonville, Le Salon de Madame Necker, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1882, 2 volumes.