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fortunate talent of pleasing without having to think about it/A good heart, a sense of right and the gift of being a friend/An honest and free spirit embellishing those traits/Finally, the grace to united reason/Le Comte, it is for you that nature has made/And that art cannot render, in engraving your portrait.” Some claimed, however, that she had been accepted to these academies thanks only to
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On 20 July 1785, Watelet offered
Marguerite a superb manuscript collection of 50 fables, composed by himself and written by Fyot le Jeune, a well-known calligrapher of the period. This was to be is last gift. After 40 years of living together, Claude Watelet died on January 12, 1786, at the Louvre,
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In Italy, Marguerite began a friendship with
Princess Borghese (née Agnese Colonna, 1702-1780) and Cardinal Alexandre Albani (1692-1779). In 1764, she did a portrait of the latter. She was appointed member of the Academies of Rome, Florence, Parma and Bologna. According to Watelet, she had “the
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The journey was described by Louis
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On 20 June 2006, a complete copy of her work (17 cm x 22 cm), bound in calf skin, with a decorated golden spine and a red cover, was sold for 10 000 €. Apart from this, there is only one other known copy, which resides in the
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Marguerite Lecomte, who was a pastel artist and who was the same age as him. They fell in love and began a relationship that lasted 40 years. This seems to have been a peaceful change in their relationship and they formed a
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Jacques Lecomte, who was still a prosecutor at the Grand Chatelet, stayed in Paris. They left in September 1763, along with Father Francois Copette, a friend and Watelet's former private tutor.
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Victoire, was born 24 December 1739 in Paris, and was baptised at the Church of Saint-Eustache (Paris). Their parents lived on rue des Vieilles-Étuves (now Rue Sauval in the
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Marguerite sold the Moulin-Joly.
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a series of 25 butterflies on 12 boards. She then painted them with pastel before offering them to her friends.
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by the King, where the trio moved in. They still kept the Moulin-Joly as a country residence where they hosted
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