细节
DIDEROT, Denis (1713-1784). Autograph letter signed ('Diderot') to Mademoiselle [Marie-Madeleine] Jodin, Paris, 11 May 1769, address panel ('Mademoiselle Jodin chez M[onsieu]r Jambellant sellier, Rue porte basse, Bordeaux'), 2½ pages, 8vo (small paper loss from tears in outer corners of 2nd leaf, touching 3 words, tiny splits in edges at folds).
Advice to an aspiring actress: 'Je suis bien aise que vous aiez debuté avec succès, car il n'y a gueres que des applaudissemens continus qui puissent dedommager de la fatigue et des degouts de votre etat. Mon dessein n'est pas de vous decourager, ni de fletrir un moment heureux; mais songez, mademoiselle, qu'il y a bien de la difference entre le public de Bordeaux et le public de Paris ... Travaillez donc ... Perfectionnez-vous surtout dans la scene tranquille.' Part of the letter refers to his correspondent's finances which Diderot supervises, and to the sale ('loterie') of her porcelain; she is also enjoined to pay attention to her health and her conduct ('Faites-vous respecter; montrez-vous sensible aux procedes honnètes ... Les armes de la femme sont la douceur et les graces, et l'on ne resiste point à ces armes là.')
Marie-Madeleine Jodin was one of Diderot's more improbable protégés. The daughter of a Genevan watchmaker who contributed to Diderot's Encyclopédie, she was imprisoned on various occasions for immoral conduct and was expelled from Dresden as a result of her scandalous affair with Count Werner von Schulenburg, with whom she moved to Bordeaux. The present letter, written after her stage debut there (when Schulenburg had left her) is one of the twenty-one which are known, in which Diderot advises her on her finances, her acting and her behaviour. In 1790 Mademoiselle Jodin published the first feminist treatise of the Revolutionary period, Vues législatives pour les femmes.
Advice to an aspiring actress: 'Je suis bien aise que vous aiez debuté avec succès, car il n'y a gueres que des applaudissemens continus qui puissent dedommager de la fatigue et des degouts de votre etat. Mon dessein n'est pas de vous decourager, ni de fletrir un moment heureux; mais songez, mademoiselle, qu'il y a bien de la difference entre le public de Bordeaux et le public de Paris ... Travaillez donc ... Perfectionnez-vous surtout dans la scene tranquille.' Part of the letter refers to his correspondent's finances which Diderot supervises, and to the sale ('loterie') of her porcelain; she is also enjoined to pay attention to her health and her conduct ('Faites-vous respecter; montrez-vous sensible aux procedes honnètes ... Les armes de la femme sont la douceur et les graces, et l'on ne resiste point à ces armes là.')
Marie-Madeleine Jodin was one of Diderot's more improbable protégés. The daughter of a Genevan watchmaker who contributed to Diderot's Encyclopédie, she was imprisoned on various occasions for immoral conduct and was expelled from Dresden as a result of her scandalous affair with Count Werner von Schulenburg, with whom she moved to Bordeaux. The present letter, written after her stage debut there (when Schulenburg had left her) is one of the twenty-one which are known, in which Diderot advises her on her finances, her acting and her behaviour. In 1790 Mademoiselle Jodin published the first feminist treatise of the Revolutionary period, Vues législatives pour les femmes.
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