Category

French salon-holders

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Germaine de Staël

Genevan-French author (1766-1817)

Margaret of Valois-Angoulême

queen consort of Navarre (1492–1549)

French revolutionary

Ninon de Lenclos

French author, courtesan, freethinker, and patron of the arts (1620-1705)

Madeleine de Scudéry

French writer (1607–1701)

Madame de Lafayette

French writer (1634-1693)

Madame d'Aulnoy

Juliette Récamier

French salon-holder

Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin de Genlis

French writer (1746–1830)

Mary-Anne Paulze Lavoisier

French chemist and painter (1758-1836)

French writer and salonnière (1836–1936)

Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse

French Salon-holder

Mathilde Bonaparte

Princess of France (1820-1904)

mistress of the King of France (1639-1715)

Stéphanie de Beauharnais

consort of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden, and adoptive daughter of Napoleon I

Princess Adélaïde of Orléans

French royal (1777–1847)

Claudine Guérin de Tencin

French writer and salonist

Thérésa Tallien

Spanish-French courtesans

Hortense Mancini

Mistress of Charles II of England

Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet

Sophie de Condorcet

French salon hostess (1764–1822)

Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé

Suzanne Curchod

French-Swiss salonist and writer (1737-1794)

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

French salon-holder

Marie Anne Mancini

French salon-holder

Marie Duplessis

19th-century French courtesan

Virginie Ancelot

French writer and painter (1792-1875)

Italian French noblewoman and salonist (1616-1684)

French poet, editor (1810–1876)

Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin

French salon-holde (1695–1777)

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles

writer from France

Rachilde () was the pen name and preferred identity of novelist and playwright Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (11 February 1860 – 4 April 1953). Born near Périgueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire, Rachilde went on to become a Symbolist author and one of the most prominent women in literature associated with the Decadent movement of fin de siècle France.

Françoise de Graffigny

French writer (1695-1758)

Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon

French royal (1676-1753)

Louise d'Épinay

art patron (1872–1950)

Madame de Duras

Apollonie Sabatier

French model (1822–1890)

French writer (1776–1852)

Sophie d'Houdetot

French noblewoman

Valtesse de la Bigne

French stage actor and writer (1848–1910)

Laetitia Marie Wyse Bonaparte

French writer, editor (1831–1902)

Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes

French noblewomen, mistress of Victor Amadeus II Duke of Savoy

Marguerite de la Sablière

French scientist

Henriette-Julie de Murat

French courtesan (1819–1884)

Jeanne Agnès Berthelot de Pléneuf, marquise de Prie

Adélaïde Filleul, Marquise de Souza-Botelho

French novelist (1761-1836)

Geneviève Halévy

French salon holder

Nina de Callias

French poet (1843–1884)

Catherine Grand

French courtesan (1762-1834)

Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine

French salon-holder (1706-1799)

Fanny de Beauharnais

French poet and mother of the politician Claude de Beauharnais

Élisabeth, Countess Greffulhe

French aristocrat (1860–1952)

Marguerite Steinheil

French murder suspect (1869-1954)

Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius

French aristocrat (1722-1800)

Anne-Marie du Boccage

Marie-Laure de Noailles

French art collector (1902-1970)

Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis

French composer, pianist, and salonnière

Adèle d'Osmond