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Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse
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Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (November 9, – May 23, ) owned a prominent salon in France.
Her Lettres were published by Mme de Guibert in and a spurious additional collection appeared in Modern editions include that of Eugène Asse (). In addition to the Lettres she was the author of two chapters intended as a kind of sequel to Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy .
Early life
She was born in Lyon, an illegitimate child of the comtesse d'Albon, but was brought up as the daughter of Claude Lespinasse of Lyon. At the age of 16, on leaving her convent school, she became governess in the home of her mother's legitimate daughter, Madame de Vichy, who had married the brother of Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand.
Here Madame du Deffand made her acquaintance, and,