Marie Anne Doublet (23 August 1677 – May 1771), known as Doublet de Persan, Legendre, was a French scholar, writer and salonnière. She was born and died in Paris.

Marie Anne Doublet and her brother, Father Legendre

After the death of her husband, Doublet was the friend and possible lover of Louis Petit de Bachaumont; she was a supporter of parlement. The salon, known as The Parish, met in Doublet's home within the walls of the convent of the Convent of the Filles-Saint-Thomas [fr].[1] It sponsored a clandestine newsletter, the Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la République des Lettres en France.[2]

Members of the salon Doublet were against what they saw as rococo degeneracy and advocated for a strict and moralistic classicism. Doublet herself was a critique of rococo art; she and Bachaumont helped foster the classicist revival in the Academy in the 1740s and 1750s. A central figure of the salon Doublet was Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye.[3]

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  1. ^ Fossier, François (14 November 2019). Les archives et l'Etat au XVIIIe siècle: Tome 1 : Les diplomatistes de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (in French). Editions L'Harmattan. p. 61. ISBN 978-2-14-013520-0.
  2. ^ Russo, Elena (19 January 2007). Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France. JHU Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-8018-8476-4.
  3. ^ Armstrong, Christopher Drew (15 April 2013). Julien-David Leroy and the Making of Architectural History. Routledge. pp. 38–40. ISBN 978-1-135-76396-1.