Tencin
MADAME DE (CLAUDINE ALEXANDRINE GUÉRIN), a French author; born in Grenoble in 1681; entered the reintolerable. Finally, in 1714, she went to ligious life; but soon found its restraints Paris, where her wit and beauty soon attracted to her a crowd of lovers, among them personages as great as the Regent and Cardinal Dubois. She had much powith the regent and the cardinal in 1723. litical influence. But her importance died with the regent and the cardinal in 1723. In 1726 she lay a short time in the Basone of her lovers shooting himself in her one of her lovers shooting himself in her Her romances, and her salon became one of the most popular in Paris. One of her oldest one of her children.
TENCIN "Memoirs of the Comte de Comminges" (1735), "The Siege of Calais" (1739), and 'The Misfortunes of Love" (1747), show taste, passion, and style. Madame de Tencin's "Correspondence" with her brother appeared at Paris in 1790; the "Letters to the Duc de Richelieu" in 1806.
She died in Paris, Dec. 4, 1749.