Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur, naturalized in New York as John Hector St. John, was a French-American writer, diplomat, and farmer.
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Elisabeth Françoise Sophie Lalive de Bellegarde, Comtesse d'Houdetot was a French noblewoman. She is remembered primarily for the brief but intense love she inspired in Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1757,
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…to France, where he was briefly reunited with his father. After spending some time recovering at the family estate, he visited Paris and the salon of Sophie d'Houdetot. In 1782 in London, he published a volume of narrative essays entitled Letters from an American Farmer. The book quickly became the first literary…
An older picture of the Comtesse de Houdetot.