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Madame d’Épinay (1726–1783)
Épinay, Madame de la Live d’ (ā-pē-nā’). A notable French writer of memoirs; born at Valenciennes, March 11, 1726; died on April 17, 1783. She cultivated intellectual society—Grimm, D’Holbach, Diderot, Rousseau; for the latter she erected in her château garden at Montmorency a cottage, “The Hermitage.” She published a valued work on education, ‘The Conversations of Emilie’; ‘Letters to my Son’; and ‘My Happy Moments.’ Her posthumously published ‘Memoirs’ constitute a charming autobiography written with the freedom of an artist.