Brought to attention by Madame du Deffand, she kept a salon in Paris; her letters were published in 1809.

REFERENCES TO Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse:

Marchioness of Abercorn to Sydney Owenson, [July? 1810] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)