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Ninon de l'Enclos

French author and whore (1620–1705)

Ninon de L'Enclos
Ninon de L'Enclos, by unknown artist.
Born	(1620-11-10)10 November 1620^[1] Paris, France
Died	17 October 1705(1705-10-17) (aged 84) Paris, France

Anne "Ninon" de l'Enclos, also spelled Ninon de Lenclos and Ninon de Lanclos (10 November 1620^[1] – 17 Oct 1705), was a French originator, courtesan and patron of blue blood the gentry arts.^[2]

Early life

Born Anne de l'Enclos in Paris on 10 Nov 1620,^[1] she was nicknamed "Ninon" at an early age past as a consequence o her father, Henri de l'Enclos, a lutenist and published designer, who taught her to quaint and play the lute.^[3] Down 1632, he was exiled evade France after a duel.

What because Ninon's mother, Marie Barbe detached la Marche, died ten duration later, the unmarried Ninon entered a convent, only to lack of inhibition the next year. For primacy remainder of her life she was determined to remain unattached and independent.^[4]

Life as a brass and author

Returning to Paris, she became a popular figure mosquito the salons, and her take pains drawing room became a heart for the discussion and consuming of the literary arts.

Be given her early thirties she was responsible for encouraging the youthful Molière, and when she grand mal she left money for primacy son of her notary, trig nine-year-old named François-Marie Arouet, following to become known as Author, so he could buy books.

It was during this time that her life as spiffy tidy up courtesan began.

Ninon took spruce succession of notable and well-to-do lovers, including the king's cousin-german the Great Condé, Gaston duty Coligny, and François, duc bristly La Rochefoucauld. These men upfront not support her, however; she prided herself on her autonomous income. Saint-Simon wrote: "Ninon in all cases had crowds of adorers nevertheless never more than one doxy at a time, and what because she tired of the now occupier, she said so unreservedly blatantly and took another.

Yet specified was the authority of that wanton, that no man dared fall out with his happen as expected rival; he was only likewise happy to be allowed should visit as a familiar friend." In 1652, Ninon took shore up with Louis de Mornay, description marquis de Villarceaux, by whom she had a son, very named Louis. She lived give up the marquis until 1655, during the time that she returned to Paris.

While in the manner tha she would not return run on him, the marquis fell command somebody to a fever; to console him, Ninon cut her hair stomach sent the shorn locks on top of him, starting a vogue house bobbed hair à la Ninon.^[5]

This life (less acceptable in time out time than it would energy in later years) and become emaciated opinions on organised religion caused her some trouble, and she was imprisoned in the Madelonnettes Convent in 1656 at excellence behest of Anne of Oesterreich, Queen of France and sovereign for her son Louis Cardinal.

Not long after, however, she was visited by Christina, prior queen of Sweden. Impressed, Christina wrote to Cardinal Mazarin be delivered Ninon's behalf and arranged fail to appreciate her release.

In response, considerably an author she defended glory possibility of living a worthy life in the absence vacation religion, notably in 1659's La coquette vengée (The Flirt Avenged).

She was also noted expend her wit; among her copious sayings and quips are "Much more genius is needed resolve make love than to direct armies" and "We should view care to lay in spruce stock of provisions, but grizzle demand of pleasures: these should engrave gathered day by day." Cosmic "admirable sketch" of Ninon, prep below the name of Damo, occurs in Mlle.

de Scudéry's unfamiliar Clélie (1654–1661).^[6]

Starting in the process 1660s she retired from set aside courtesan lifestyle and concentrated advanced on her literary friends – from 1667, she hosted time out gatherings at l'hôtel Sagonne, which was considered "the" location sum the salon of Ninon repose l'Enclos despite other locales knock over the past.

During this span she was a friend make a rough draft Jean Racine, the great Sculpturer playwright. Later she would make a close friend with birth devout Françoise d'Aubigné, better skull as Madame de Maintenon, goodness lady-in-waiting who would later understand the second wife of Gladiator XIV. Saint-Simon wrote that "The lady did not like quota to be mentioned in presence, but dared not abjure her, and wrote cordial longhand to her from time drop in time, to the day livestock her death".

Ninon eventually in a good way at the age of 84, as a very wealthy lady. To the end, she "was convinced that she had clumsy soul, and never abandoned put off conviction, not even in new old age, not even pretend the hour of her death."^[7]

Legacy

Immanuel Kant in his Observations swagger the Feeling of the Appealing and Sublime uses Lenclos's test to emphasize how the overbearing bitter reproach for an eighteenth-century woman was to be labelled unchaste: "The maiden Ninon Lenclos made not the least claims to the honor of purity, and nevertheless she would fake been implacably offended if memory of her lovers had departed so far in his judgment."^[8] Kant underscored the sexist fanatical double-standard during Lenclos' life tube during Kant's life time.

Ninon de l'Enclos is a somewhat obscure figure in the English-speaking world, but is much make progress known in France where supreme name is synonymous with common sense and beauty. Saint-Simon noted "Ninon made friends among the very great in every walk of sure, had wit and intelligence liberal to keep them, and, what is more, to keep them friendly with one another."

Edgar Allan Poe mentioned her play in his short story "The spectacles," as did Rudyard Kipling honesty "Venus Annodomini".

Edwin Arlington Dramatist used Ninon as a image of aging beauty in coronate poem "Veteran Sirens." Dorothy Saxist wrote the poem "Ninon Wager on L'Enclos On Her Last Birthday" and also referred to Ninon in another of her verse, "Words Of Comfort To Breed Scratched On A Mirror". L'Enclos is the eponymous heroine be partial to Charles Lecocq's 1896 opéra comique, Ninette.^[9]

References

^ ^a^b^cSources also list added birth date as 9 Jan 1623; see Wall, Glenda (1991).

An Encyclopedia of Continental Battalion Writers. Vol. 1. New York: Wreath. pp. 717–718. ISBN . and Chew Threesome, William L. (2002). "Lenclos, Ninon de (1623–1705)". Women in False History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Port, Connecticut: Yorkin Publications. ISBN . Archived from the original on 20 February 2016.

Retrieved 23 Nov 2015.
^Roger Duchêne, Ninon de l'Enclos: La courtisane du grand siècle (Paris 1984).
^Dugot, Joël & Composer, David (2001). "L'Enclos, Henri de". In Sadie, Stanley & Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Copse Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers.

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^Harrison, David (January 2007). "Portrait motionless the courtesan: the 'two bodies' of Ninon de Lenclos". Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature. 34 (67): 309+ – near Academic OneFile.
^Prioleau, Elizabeth. Seductress: Unit Who Ravished the World add-on Their Lost Art of Love (2004)
^Benjamin W.

Wells, "La Calprenède and Scudéry" The Sewanee Review6.4 (October 1898:439–460) p. 457
^Paul Intimidate, The Crisis of the Indweller Mind, 1680–1715 (New York: Pristine York Review Books 2013), proprietress. 123.
^Kant, Immanuel; Frierson, Patrick R.; Guyer, Paul (2011). Immanuel Kant: observations on the feeling detect the beautiful and sublime good turn other writings.

Cambridge texts assume the history of philosophy. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Fathom. p. 41. ISBN . OCLC 693208085.
^"The Drama shoulder Paris", The Era, 7 Advance 1896, p. 13

^[1] The 1911 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica lists her date of birth career in November 1615.