Background
Louise Florence was born on March 11, 1726, in Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
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Louise Florence was born on March 11, 1726, in Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Her "Conversations d'Émilie" (1774), a guide for the education of her granddaughter, is her finest work. Her "Lettres àa mon fils" (1758) and "Mes moments heureux" display also those qualities of sincerity and tact for which she was noted. She died on Apr. 17, 1783.
Louise Florence married to Denis Joseph de La Live d'Épinay,d'Epinay, a collector-general of taxes, from whom she separated in 1749. In 1756 she gave shelter to Jean Jacques Rousseau on her estate in the valley of Montmorency. They quarreled the following year and were never reconciled. Her "Mémoires" pretended to give a faithful account of their relations, but they were retouched by Diderot and Grimm after their rupture with Rousseau and made to serve their desire for revenge.