Amélie Suard

See also: Panckoucke

Amélie Suard , born Panckoucke with Lille in 1750 and died in 1830, was a woman of letters and French salonnière .

Sister of the editor Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, Amélie Panckoucke married the man of letters Jean-Baptiste Suard the January 16th 1766.

She corresponded with Condorcet with which she was very dependant and to which she even gave councils of heart of 1771 to 1773. Visitor of Ferney, it was also in correspondence with Voltaire. She held, Tuesday and saturdays, a literary Salon, which was attended by Talleyrand, the abbot Raynal, the abbot Morellet, François de Pange, Daunou, the brothers André and Marie-Joseph Chénier, both Trudaine, Alfiéri, Jeanne-Marie de Beaumont and the Condorcet, and which had great influence on the nominations with the French Academy, to begin with that of his/her titular husband of the armchair 26.

Works

Tests of memories on Mr. Suard (1743-1830) , Paris, Firmin Didot, 1820
new Correspondence of Condorcet and Mrs. Suard (1771-1791) , ED. Elisabeth Badinter, Paris, Beech, 1988 ISBN 2213021643

References

Jules Bertaut, Égéries of the XVIIIe century: Mrs Suard, Mrs Delille, Mrs Helvétius, Mrs Diderot, Miss Quinault , Paris, Plon 1928

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