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Julie de Lespinasse (1732–1776)
Lespinasse, Julie de (les-pē-näs’). A French letter-writer; born at Lyons, about 1732; died at Paris, May 23, 1776. Her drawing-room was a place of assembly for the fashion and wit of Paris. Her ‘Letters’ (2 vols., 1809), and ‘Unpublished Letters’ (2 vols., 1877), are of interest more as reflecting the writer’s passionate sensibility and enthusiasm than for their literary excellence.