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Ligniville d'Autricourt, Anne-Catherine de (1722 - 1800)

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Short name Ligniville d'Autricourt, Anne-Catherine de
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First name Anne-Catherine
Birth name Ligniville d'Autricourt
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Alternative name Anne-Catherine Helvétius
Date of birth 1722
Date of death 1800
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Sex Female
Place of birth Nancy
Place of death Paris
Lived in Paris , France
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Louis-Michel van Loo, Portrait of Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius, 17XX, private collection
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Ligniville d'Autricourt, Anne-Catherine de was ...
related to Graffigny, Françoise de
related to Octavie Belot
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*Lettre à Madame de Graffigny (1745) 0 0
*Lettre à Madame de Graffigny (1746) 0 0
*Lettre à Madame de Graffigny (1746) 0 0
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For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

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Louis-Michel van Loo, Portrait of Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius, 17XX, private collection None is portrait of

Cf. - Jean-Paul de Lagrave (éd.) Madame Helvétius et la Société d'Auteuil. Oxford, VF, 1999.

"elle avait l'esprit fin et prompt, et le sentiment juste du beau" (d'après Morellet; Lagrave 2). "Demoiselle de haute naissance, mais de médiocre fortune" (intr. Corr.Helvetius) écrit à Graffigny 1746: "Si j'étais votre fille! Mon Dieu! Pourquoi faut-il que je ne la sois pas?"

Acted as a literary critic in her correspondance; cf. "La piece de Palissot [Les Philosophes] m'a paru comme a vous la honte de la nation, mais les Aristophane ont beau faire, ils ne deshonoreront pas les Socrate". (lettre a Jean Levesque de Burigny 18 mai 1760; Corr.gen. Helvetius t.II, p. 277)

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