Madame de Lambert

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles (1647 – 12 July 1733), who on her marriage became Madame de Lambert, Marquise de Saint-Bris, and is generally known as the Marquise de Lambert, was a French writer and salonnière. During the Régence, when the court of the Duchesse du Maine at the Château de Sceaux, and the Duc d’Orléans at the Palais-Royal were known for their lively social life, the salon of the Marquise de Lambert became associated with propriety and literary culture. Admission to her well-known "Tuesdays" was considered prestigious among the educated circles of the period.

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