Madame de Pompadour

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Madame de Pompadour almost solely through a single episode, which he returns to from 2014 to 2023: after the success of Le Devin du village, she wants to reward Rousseau, and Rousseau refuses12. The passages vary only in the form the offer takes. Sometimes it is a hundred louis, sometimes a pension, and sometimes both at once, as "a pension of a hundred louis"3. On one occasion, he specifies that she adores Rousseau's opera4. The anecdote comes up in a variety of sessions: those on music ("M comme Musique", the Musicosophie series, alongside Mozart, Plato and Hegel), a session titled "Argent, travail, liberté", the "Que faire ?" sessions, a conversation at the bistro, and a session on worldliness in Clouscard5. He never presents her for her own sake: in the passages, she appears only as the person whose money Rousseau refuses.

1. 1#2 Rousseau, un monde qui commence20 Sept 2014 · 16:27
2. 2Que faire ? 1/329 Jan 2016 · 14:19
3. 3Argent, travail, liberté3 Aug 2019 · 44:31
4. 4Musicosophie 15. Platon, Rouseau, Hegel et la musique9 Feb 2021 · 58:11
5. 5La mondanité chez Clouscard ou les privilèges pour tous18 May 2023 · 1:26:26

Summary produced automatically from 14 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.