On his Grand Tour of Europe in 1764-1765, Boswell visited and befriended the famous philosophers Jean-Jacques Rosseau and François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), and back in Edinburgh he was a personal friend of David Hume.
Marie-Charlotte Hippolyte de Campet de Saujon
Name:
Marie-Charlotte Hippolyte de Campet de Saujon
Alias:
Countess of Boufflers-Rouverel
Date of birth:
1724
Date of death:
1800
Biography:
Married (1746) to Édouard de Boufflers-Rouverel (d. 1763), Marquis de Boufflers. Mother of Louis Edouard. Mistress of Louis François I de Bourbon, Prince of Conti.
She was a friend and correspondent of several literary, musical and philosophical figures of mid-18th century Europe, including Jean-Jacques Rosseau, d'Alembert, Mozart, and, from 1761, David Hume, and she was generally considered "one of the greatest ladies of eighteenth-century France, famous for her beauty and intelligence."1
Life with Boswell:
Boswell went with Count Boufflers to visit the Countess (the Count's mother) on June 6, 1764.
Note 1: Chappell, V.C. (1963). The Philosophy of David Hume, p. ix-x. (Read it now at Questia)
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