Claudine guerin de tencin biography of barack

French salonist and author

Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, Baroness of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (27 April ^[1] – 4 December ) was a French salonist and author.

She was the mother of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, who later became a prominent mathematician, philosophe and contributor to the Encyclopédie, though she left him on the steps of the Saint-Jean-le-Rond de Paris&#;[Wikidata] church a few days after his birth in November

Early life

Claudine was born in Grenoble, France where her father, Antoine Guérin, sieur de Tencin, was president of the parlement.

Claudine Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin (April 27, 1682 — …

Claudine was brought up at a convent near Grenoble and, at the wish of her parents, took the veil but broke her vows and succeeded, in , in gaining formal permission from Pope Clement XI for her secularisation. She is reputed to have had a liaison, while still formally a nun, with the Irish exile soldier Arthur Dillon.

Life as a socialite

She joined her sister Mme. de Fe