Marquise de Rambouillet

Marquise de Rambouillet (1588-1665) was a French lady of wealth, an aristocratic hostess, and a lover of literature and art, born in Rome, who settled in Paris, and conceiving the idea of forming a society of her own, gathered together into her salon a select circle of intellectual people, which, degenerating into pedantry, became an object of general ridicule, and was dissolved at her death.

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