#Conversations d'Émilie

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Today In Women’s History Month we celebrate the birthdays of Louise-Florence-Pétronille Tardieu d’Esclavelles and Wanda Hazel Gág

Louise-Florence-Pétronille Tardieu d’Esclavelles, dame de la Live d’Épinay, byname Madame D’épinay, (born March 11, 1726, Valenciennes, Fr.—died April 17, 1783, Paris), a distinguished figure in advanced literary circles in 18th-century France. Though she wrote a good deal herself, she is more famous for her friendships with three of the outstanding French writers and thinkers of her day, Denis Diderot, Baron Friedrich de Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Mme d’Épinay interested herself in literature and the welfare of men of letters after the breakdown of her marriage to Denis-Joseph de La Live d’Épinay, a financier. She set up a congenialsalon in her country house at La Chevrette, near Montmorency, and offered hospitality to the Philosophes, the leading intellectual figures of the period immediately prior to the French Revolution. Her friendship with Grimm was long and untroubled, and Mme d’Épinay collaborated with him on his famous correspondence. Her association with Rousseau, on the other hand, was brief and stormy: in 1756 he accepted her offer of accommodation in the “Hermitage,” a small dwelling near her country house, and wrote his novel La Nouvelle Héloïsethere. But then he quarreled with his hostess, and the two became implacable foes. Mme d’Épinay was the author of several novels and works on education, but her writings are of interest now chiefly for their autobiographical revelations.

Her Wikipedia page had more information about her works

Her pseudo-memoires are written in the form of a sort of autobiographic romance, L'Histoire de Madame de Montbrillant, begun when she was thirty but never published in her lifetime. It intersperses fictionalized set pieces exhibiting the sensibilité of the earliest generation of Romantics,[6] with genuine letters and autobiographical material. Bequeathed to Baron Grimm, a mangled version of the manuscript was edited by J. P. A. Parison and J. C. Brunet (Paris, 1818) as Mémoires et correspondance de Madame d'Épinay with all the names changed to identify the supposed originals: Madame d'Épinay figures in it as Madame de Montbrillant, and René is generally recognized as Rousseau, Volx as Grimm, Gamier as Diderot, who is sometimes credited with major interventions in the text. The work has had a checkered career since.[7] The only accurate edition is George Roth, ed. Les Pseudo-mémoires de Madame d'Épinay, 3 vols., 1951.

Other works

Her Conversations d'Émilie, a dialogue recollecting the education of her granddaughter, Émilie de Belsunce, was published in 1774.[8] The Mémoires et Correspondance de Mme d'Épinay, renfermant un grand nombre de lettres inédites de Grimm, de Diderot, et de J.-J. Rousseau, ainsi que des details, &c., was published at Paris (1818) from a manuscript which she had bequeathed to Grimm.

Many of Madame d'Épinay's letters are contained in the Correspondance de l'abbé Galiani (1818), which provided material for Francis Steegmuller's joint biography,[9] and have since appeared in a definitive redaction.[10] Two anonymous works, Lettres à mon fils (Geneva, 1758) and Mes moments heureux (Geneva, 1759), are also by Madame d'Épinay.

In January 1783, three months before her death, she was awarded the Prix Monyon, recently established by the Académie to honour the author of the "book published in the current year that might be of most benefit to society"; it was her Conversations d'Émilie (1774).[11]

Wanda Hazel Gág, (born March 11, 1893, New Ulm, Minnesota, U.S.—died June 27, 1946, New York, New York), American artist and author whose dynamic visual style imbued the often commonplace subjects of both her serious art and her illustrated books for children with an intense vitality.

Gág was the daughter of a Bohemian immigrant artist. While attending high schoolin Minnesota, she helped support her family by contributing drawings to a children’s supplement to the Minneapolis Journal. She attended the St. Paul Art School on a scholarship, and from 1915 to 1917 she studied at the Minneapolis School of Art. In 1917 she traveled to New York City and entered the Art Students League, where she studied with John Sloan and other noted teachers.

A show of Gág’s drawings, lithographs, and woodcuts at the Weyhe Gallery in New York in 1926 brought her first recognition as a serious artist, and subsequent shows there in 1928, 1930, and 1940 increased her reputation. She was represented in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1939 exhibition “Art in Our Time,” which was presented at the time of the New York World’s Fair. At the suggestion of a children’s book editor, she wrote and illustrated Millions of Cats (1928), which became a classic children’s book. Her subsequent books for children include The Funny Thing (1929), A.B.C. Bunny (1933), Gone Is Gone (1935), and Nothing at All(1941). She also translated and illustrated Tales from Grimm (1936), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938), Three Gay Tales from Grimm (1943), and More Tales from Grimm (1947). Growing Pains: Diaries and Drawings for the Years 1908–1917 (1940, reprinted 1984) is a memoir based on her journals.

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Il n'y a que les mauvais cœurs qui ne souviennent pas du mal qu'ils ont fait.

Louise d'Épinay ; Les conversations d'Émilie

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La traduction d'Émilie du Châtelet (1706 - 1749) du livre de Newton à eu un rôle important dans la physique du XVIIe siècle. Mais son apport scientifique a été longtemps oublié à la faveur de sa liaison avec le philosophe Voltaire.

Bibliographie : Headstrong, 52 women who changed Science – and the science par Rachel Swarby (2015) Ed. Broadway Books Les + grandes femmes de la science par Jean C. Baudet (2014) Ed. La Boîte de Pandore Les femmes et la science par Gérard Chazal (2015) Ed. ellipses poche Offereins, M. (2011). Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (1706–1749). In European Women in Chemistry (eds J. Apotheker and L. Simon Sarkadi). doi:10.1002/9783527636457.ch6 Charlotte Simonin, De "Minerve de France" en "Folle qui aime mieux les atomes que sa propre famille" : Émilie Du Châtelet à travers les critiques de quelques contemporains. dans Femme de science, de traduction et d'instruction au XIXe siècle dans Femmes de sciences de l'Antiquité au XIXe siècle : Réalités et représentations. Textes réunis et introduit par Adeline Gargam. Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2014. pp.95-114 Mireille Touzery, « Émilie Du Châtelet, un passeur scientifique au XVIIIe siècle », La revue pour l’histoire du CNRS [En ligne], 21 | 2008, mis en ligne le 03 juillet 2010, consulté le 08 octobre 2019. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/histoire-cnrs/7752 ; DOI : 10.4000/histoire-cnrs.7752 Comolet-Tirman Laetitia (2017) La publication des Principes mathématiques de la philosophie naturelle, par Emilie du Châtelet, femme de science au XVIIIe siècle. Mémoire de recherche master 2, Université de Lyon. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/141499898.pdf Waithe M.E. (1991) Gabrielle Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil du Châtelet-Lomont. In: Waithe M.E. (eds) A History of Women Philosophers. A History of Women Philosophers, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3790-4_8 La marquise du Châtelet, femme de sciences invisibilisée par Nicolas Brucker sur The Conversation (9 septembre 2018) Sa fiche wikipédia en français https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_du_Ch%C3%A2telet et en anglais https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émilie_du_Châtelet

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