Moody Monday: Ninon de l'Enclos
Parts of an etching by Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Coupé (1784 -ca. 1852) Ninon de Lenclos Date 19th century Source/Photographer http://bpun.unine.ch/IconoNeuch/Portraits/A-Z/L.htm
" Les hommes jouissent de mille libertés que les femmes ne goûtent pas. Je me fais donc homme. "
Atheist. Poet. Courtesan. Fashionista. Queen of Everything. One of the most fashionable, spirited and brilliant women of letters of 17th century France. Credited with brilliant sayings, a free lifestyle, and the female hairdo the 17th Century is best known for:
Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria by Anthony Van Dyck. Henrietta was painted here wearing her hair à la Ninon.
She was close friend to Molière, left money for Voltaire in her will, and was admired by Queen Christina of Sweden, who arranged for her release from the Madelonnettes Convent, where she had been imprisoned by order of Queen Anne of Austria. She is such an inspiring woman, that I could write about her the whole week!