INDEX

abjection, 5, 13–14, 15, 40, 46, 57, 58, 61, Calvin, Jean, 42–3, 48, 49–50, 52–4, 57, 58,
90, 106, 111, 126 59–60, 68, 111–12
and death, 121, 127 Calvinism, 5, 15, 37, 39–51, 53–8, 59–61,
maternal, 60, 68 65, 67, 71, 72, 80, 85, 91, 94–5, 106,
Aimes, Alexandre, 3 111–12, 125–6
Albert, Anne, 54, 55 community, 55–8
Albert, Jean, 41, 54, 55 Consistory, 43, 48, 52
Albert, Lisette, 49 display, 47–51
Albert, Magdeleine see Curchod, Magdeleine Edict of Toleration, 89
Alembert, Jean le Rond d’, 32 history, 42–4, 58
Alison, Archibald, 17, 18 and motherhood, 68–9
persecution, 54–7

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Andlau, Béatrice d’, 79, 91
practice, 45–7
Argis, Boucher d’, 76
and women, 59–60
Ariès, Philippe, 116, 118
Calvinists, 1, 54–7, 84, 85
autobiography, 7, 9, 10–11
Carlson, Marvin, 14
Azouvi, François, 104, 106
Catholic Church, 49–50, 52, 54–5, 56
Bachaumont, L. P. de, 6 conduct books, 95
Mémoires secrets, 23 Châtelet, Marquise du, 64–5
Chaunu, Pierre, 118
Badinter, Elisabeth, 75, 78
Cixous, Hélène, 12–13, 69
baptism, 69, 80
Clairon, Mlle, 25
Barras, Vincent, 191
community, 55–8
Bary, René de, L’Esprit de cour, 29–30
Condorcet, Marquis de, 32
Beauvoir, Simone de, 69
conduct books, 11, 19, 27–9, 75, 95
Bentham, Jeremy, 29 Consistory, 43, 48, 52
bienséance, 28–9, 31 Coppet, Switzerland, 127
birth, 68–9 Couser, G. Thomas, 10
Blaisdell, Charmarie Jenkins, 50 Crassier, Switzerland, 1, 40, 41
Blum, Carol, 63 Curchod, Louis Antoine (father of Mme
breastfeeding, 73, 76–9 Necker), 1, 2, 40–1, 42, 45, 46, 70, 74
Brenles, Etienette Clavel de, 6, 9, 25, 26, 68, Curchod, Magdeleine (née Albert; mother
107, 108–9, 124 of Mme Necker), 1, 40, 41, 45, 46, 54, 55,
Broglie, Victor de, 128 61, 70–1, 74, 91
Buffon, Comte de, 6, 89, 107, 113–14, 117, correspondence, 70
120, 124 death, 2, 70–1, 74–5, 108–9
Burlamaqui, Jean-Jacques, 44, 49, 57 Curchod Necker, Louise Suzanne
Burnand, Léonard, 3 birth, 1, 70
Butler, Judith, 13, 14 childbirth, 68, 76

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childhood, 1, 40–1, 44, 71
death, 114, 115–17, 122–3, 126–7
governess, 2, 45–6
last years, 124–6
leaves France, 1, 123, 124
leaves Switzerland, 46
marriage, 47
as mother, 3, 78–87, 125
tomb, 115–16, 127, 128
Des inhumations précipitées, 118, 119–21
Journal de la dépense de mon temps, 65
letters, 3, 6, 7, 8–10, 27, 46–7, 51–2, 57,
71–2, 109–10
Mélanges, 2, 10, 27–8, 51, 64
Nouveaux mélanges, 2, 27–8, 51, 64
Réflexions sur le divorce, 49, 50
Dawson, Deidre, 100
De Luc, Jean André, 39
death, 90, 115–23
of Mme Necker, 114, 115–17, 122–3,
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126–7
memorialization, 10, 122, 123
premature burial, 118–19, 127
Deffand, Mme du, 2, 21, 32, 65
Delille, Jacques, 34
Diderot, Denis, 9, 22, 61–2, 92
D’Alembert’s Dream, 102–3
Didier, Béatrice, 8
Diesbach, Ghislain de, 79
display, 3, 4, 10, 18, 29–30, 60–1
of Calvinism, 47–51
and illness, 98–9
divorce, 43, 49–50, 125
Réflexions sur le divorce, 49
doctors, 96–100, 104–5, 120
see also Tronchin, Théodore
Doyle, William, 124
Dubeau, Catherine, 18, 20
Duguet, J. J., 95
duty, 35–6, 40, 58, 61, 75, 108, 113
Edict of Fontainbleau see Revocation of the
Edict of Nantes
Edict of Toleration, 89
Épinay, Mme de, 91, 99
Epinoy, Roze de l’, 77
equality, 59–60
exile, 16, 40, 52, 54, 55, 56–7, 58, 60–1,
110, 123
emigrés, 123–4
Fairweather, Maria, 79, 90, 111
family, ideal, 59, 84, 86
Farel, Guillaume, 48
Faret, Nicolas, 27
Faydit de Terssac, J. J., 94
Ferté-Imbault, Marquise de La, 2, 24, 32, 82
Foucault, Michel, 12, 101
Franklin, Benjamin, 22
French Revolution, 1, 123–4, 126
Galiani, Ferdinando, 22
Garrick, David, 9, 31
Geneva, 25, 41–4, 45–6, 57, 99
Académie, 41, 43, 44
emigrés in, 56
Genlis, Mme de, 65, 82–3
Adèle et Théodore, 82
Mémoires, 82
Geoffrin, Mme Marie-Thérèse Rodet, 2, 20,
21, 22, 23, 25, 32, 81, 82, 124
Gibbon, Edward, 2, 22, 24, 46, 124
Goffman, Erving, 14
Goncourt, E. and J. de, 19
Goodman, Dena, 3, 8, 20, 79
Goring, Paul, 29
Grassi, Marie-Claire, 8
Greaves, Richard, 60
Gregory, Dorothea, 17
Grenaille, François de, 31
Grimm, Freiherr von, 6, 22
Guibert, Comte de, 90, 91
Gutwirth, Madeleyn, 18, 78
Habermas, Jürgen, 20
Hannin, Valérie, 3
Haussonville, Paul-Gabriel d’, 3, 19, 24, 70
Hawkins, Anne H., 10
Helvetic Consensus Formula, 43
Herold, J. Christopher, 90
Holbach, Baron d’, 21
Holroyd, Maria Josepha, 114
homesickness, 58, 109, 113
Hospice de charité, 62, 93, 94–5, 96, 97
and death, 120
Huguenots, 1, 55, 57, 85, 123
hygiene, 78, 96–7
illness, 91–101
doctors, 96–100, 104–5, 120
Mme Necker’s, 2, 5, 6–7, 11, 16, 58, 89,
90–1, 101, 106–14
and vitalism, 102–6
Irigaray, Luce, 12, 13, 69, 122–3
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Jaucourt, Louis de, 28, 62, 94, 109, 117, 126 childhood, 17, 76, 78–81
Jordanova, Ludmilla, 97 death, 127–8, 129
Junot, Laure, 19, 89 education, 47–8, 80–1
in mother’s salon, 81–2, 83–7
Kadar, Marlene, 7 Corinne, 128
Kristeva, Julia, 12, 13, 14, 69–70 De l’influence des passions, 82, 128–9
Necker, Jacques, 2, 17, 21, 23, 24, 38, 65–6, 79
Lairtullier, E., 24
after wife’s death, 2, 3, 115, 116, 125
Lane, Belden C., 47, 56
career, 84, 85, 89–90
Laqueur, Thomas, 12
death, 128
Lausanne, 1, 21, 25, 41, 45, 49, 93, 124
wife’s letters to, 2, 125
Lauzun, Mme De, 30
Lejeune, Philippe, 3 Compte rendu, 37, 61, 62, 89–90, 95
LeSage, Georges-Louis, 39, 41, 42 De l’importance des opinions réligieuses,
Lespinasse, Julie de, 20, 21, 32–3, 37, 91 43–4
letter writing, 7–9, 11 introduction to Mélanges, 61, 89, 126
Levade, David, 107 Necker, Mme see Curchod Necker, Louise
Lilti, Antoine, 24, 38 Suzanne
Linton, Marisa, 62, 63 novels, 7, 8, 104
Louis XIV, King of France, 54–5
Oberkirch, Baronne d’, 22, 23, 36, 37
Louis-Courvoisier, Micheline, 99
Lullin, Ami, 44–5, 73, 106, 112 pamphlets, 37

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Luther, Martin, 42, 67 Paris, 2, 17–19, 21–7, 46, 47–8, 58, 81, 103,
McKay, Sherry, 20 109, 110, 112, 113–14
Malebranche, Nicolas, 82 in French Revolution, 1
Malouin, Paul-Jacques, 117 hospitals, 92, 93–4
Marmontel, Jean-François, 22, 24, 32–3, political situation, 89
81, 83 Pekacz, Jolanta, 20, 86
marriage, 42, 49–50, 55, 59, 76 Pellet, Marion, 49
Marsden Gillis, Christina, 121 Perreault, Jeanne, 7
memorialization, 10, 122, 123 Peter, Jean-Pierre, 98, 104
Mentzer, Raymond A., 60 petite Feuille, La, 118
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 30 Pezay, Marquis de, 81
Moncrif, Paradis de, 28–9, 33 Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste, 122
Mont d’Or, 90, 108 Pilloud, Sévérine, 99
Montélimar, 54, 55 Plombières, 90, 108
Monter, William, 40 politesse, 19, 28, 34, 97
Montpellier, 90, 95–6 Pomme, Pierre, 103
Morellet, François, 22 premature burial, 118–19, 127
motherhood, 15–16, 17, 60–87 Protestants, 36, 80, 84
breastfeeding, 73, 76–9 hospital for, 93, 95–6
Freudian view, 79 persecution, 54–6, 85
and virtue, 68–70, 75–8, 84–7 see also Calvinism
Moultou, Paul, 9, 39, 41, 114, 117, 124 public health, 93, 95–7
Puthod, Mme, 49
Narbonne, Louis de, 114, 125
nation, 27, 57–8, 62 Raulin, Théodore, 103–4, 105
Necker, Anne-Louise-Germaine (‘Minette’; Raynal, 81
later Mme de Staël) Répara, Magdeleine, 41, 54
adult life, 2, 3, 7, 61, 75, 90, 114, 124, Réverdil, Elie-Salomon-François, 41, 46,
125, 126, 127, 129 71–2
birth, 68, 76 Réverdil, Elisabeth Sophie Salomé, 48, 72
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Réverdil, Henriette, 39, 72–4, 124 Switzerland, 27, 55–6, 57, 106, 110, 113
letters from Mme Necker, 6, 9, 48, 49, 51, Mme Necker returns to, 124
70, 75, 107 Protestant emigrés, 123–4
Réverdil, Marc-Louis, 73 see also Coppet; Crassier; Geneva;
Réverdil, Urbain, 72 Lausanne
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1, 54–6
Rieder, Philippe, 101 Tencin, Mme du, 32
Rilliet Huber, Catherine, 80, 81, 83 Tenon, Jacques, 92, 96
Roland, Marie-Jeanne, 78 Thiéry, François, 119
Romilly, Sir Samuel, 62 Thomas, Antoine Léonard, 22, 25, 61, 81,
Rosenblat, Helena, 42 83, 89, 108, 114, 124, 126
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 6, 9, 38, 41, 42, 62, 63, correspondence with Mme Necker, 6, 7,
64, 66, 67, 75, 76, 77–8, 80–1, 113, 114 10, 26, 52, 97, 107, 112, 113, 122
Confessions, 7, 9 Essai sur le caractere, 105–6
Julie, 63, 67 Thomassin, M., 99–100
letter to doctor, 98 Thompson, John Lee, 59–60
Roussel, P., 105 Tissot, Samuel-Auguste, 41, 92–3, 94, 96,
97, 99, 101, 103, 113, 114
St Ouen, France, 108, 122 Tronchin, Théodore, 70, 90, 91, 99, 101,
Saint-Pierre, J.-H. Bernadin de, 62 108–9
Paul et Virginie, 22 Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques, 32
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 19, 24

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Turretin, Jean-Alphonse, 41, 42, 43–4
salonnières, 20, 31–4, 64, 65, 86, 101
salons, 14–15, 16, 18, 19–21, 81–3 Unfitting Stories, 11
children in, 81–3
Mme Necker’s, 2, 21–2, 24–5, 38, 61, Vadier, Berthe, 3
81–7 Vaumorière, Pierre d’Ortigue de, 23
Sans Culotte, 115 Venel, Jean-André, 105
Saussure, Albertine-Adrienne Necker de, 3 Vermenoux, Mme de, 2, 21, 99
Saussure, Horace-Bénédict de, 52 Vess, David, 91
Saxe, maréchal de, 118 Vigée-LeBrun, Elizabeth, 78, 128
Schiebinger, Londa, 12 Vila, Anne C., 9
Ségur, Pierre de, 19 virtue, 6, 61–8
sensibility, 3–4, 5, 7, 9, 94–5, 97, 110, 126 and motherhood, 68–70, 75–8, 84–7
and death, 118 vitalism, 102–6
and vitalism, 101–6 Voltaire, 6, 9, 22
Sévigné, Mme de, 7–8, 10 illness, 7, 100
sociability, 3, 4, 11, 14, 18–19, 20, 23, 24–5, monument to, 122, 123
26, 28–30, 32, 35–6, 38, 44, 64, 104, 112
Société de la charité maternelle, 96 Walpole, Horace, 22
Société royale de médecine, 93 Watt, Jeffrey, 51
specularity, 122–3 Weber, Joseph, 64
Staël, Auguste de, 3 Weiner, Dora B., 93
Staël, Gustavine, 90 Wendell, Susan, 11
Staël, Mme de see Necker, Anne-Louise- Williams, Elizabeth A., 102
Germaine Winslow, Jacques-Bénigne, 118–19, 127
Staël-Holstein, Baron de, 90, 125 women
Steinbrügge, Lieselotte, 12 and Calvinism, 59–60
stigmata, 110–11, 116, 126 and vitalism, 103
Striff, Erin, 14 see also motherhood; salonnières
Suard, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine, 22, 25
suffering see illness Young, Iris Marion, 69