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Françoise-Louise de Warens, born Louise Éléonore de la Tour du Pil, also called Madame de Warens (31 March 1699 – 29 July 1762), was the benefactress and mistress of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Françoise-Louise de la Tour, également connue sous les noms de Madame de Warens ou Louise-Françoise-Éléonore de la Tour du Pil, dame de Warens, née le à Vevey, en Suisse, et morte le à Chambéry, alors dans le duché de Savoie, est une aristocrate suisse, manufacturière, prospectrice de filons miniers, épistolière, espionne et ...
Apr 15, 2024 · Louise-Éléanore de la Tour du Pil, baroness de Warens was a benevolent aristocrat who engaged the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in an idyllic liaison from 1728 to 1742, furthering his education and social position as his lover and maternal protectress.
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Françoise-Louise de Warens (nacida Louise Eléonore de la Tour du Pil, conocida como Madame de Warens) (Vevey, 31 de marzo de 1699 [1] – Chambery, 29 de julio de 1762) [2] fue la benefactora y amante del escritor y músico francés Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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Francoise-Louise de la Tour belonged to the aristocratic family who possessed Chatelard with its picturesque old castle on the hillside near Vevey, a familiar sight to the foreign colony now dwelling nearby at Montreux and Clarens. She was born in March, 1699, the second of three children and the only survivor. Her mother died in childbirth when Fr...
Even at the age of fourteen, before her marriage, Mile. Francoise de la Tour was famed in the neighbourhood of Vevey for her gay and independent spirit, as well (so at least it was reported) as for the lively parties she presided over, with games and music and dancing. She associated much, indeed, with the peasant girls of the neighbourhood; it was...
We now reach the circumstances that led up to the most decisive episode in the life of Madame de Warens — her abandonment of her home and her religion. In 1724 a young Frenchman, Elie Laffon, son of a refugee French Protestant minister, had arrived at Vevey, and, in accordance with the industrial traditions of the Huguenots, he proposed to start a ...
Madame de Warens has seemed to many who only know her through the “Confessions,” an enigma, almost a monstrosity. When all the facts of her life are before us, and we have patiently reconstructed them—and, where we cannot reconstruct, divined—we realise how little that is enigmatic remains. She was simply a restless, impetuous, erring, and sufferin...
Swiss aristocrat of intelligence, independence and energy, b. (Vevey, Switzerland), d. (Chambéry, Savoy). Louise-Éléanore de la Tour was the daughter of Jean-Baptiste de la Tour and Jeanne Louise Warnéry, who died at the birth of her second daughter when Louise-Éléanore was one year old.
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Madame de Warens was a complex figure in the Swiss aristocracy of the eighteenth century. An aristocrat, a manufacturer, a mine prospector, a letter writer, a spy and a libertine, she led a singular life.
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