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Tencin, Madame de
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A French writer of romances, a woman of clever wit and of personal charms, who abandoned a religious life and, coming to Paris in 1714, immersed herself in the political and fashionable life of the city; was not too careful of her morals, and ranked among her lovers the Regent, Fontenelle, and Cardinal Dubois; used her influence against the Jansenists; more circumspect in later life she presided over a fashionable salon; was the mother of D'Alembert (1681-1749).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Tencin, Madame de'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/t/tencin-madame-de.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Tencin, Madame de'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/t/tencin-madame-de.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
