France, Writer
April 27,
1682 – December, 4, 1749.
Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, was a French salonist and author. She was the mother of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, philosophe and contributor to the Encyclopédie, though she left him on the steps of the Saint-Jean-le-Rond de Paris church a few days after his birth.
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