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French-Speaking Worlds: "Becoming the Marquise de Pompadour: The Letters of Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson" by Chloe Edmondson (Stanford)

Date
Tue March 3rd 2026, 5:00 - 6:30pm
Event Sponsor
Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Department of French and Italian
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
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Please join the French-Speaking Worlds: Then and Now for a talk entitled, "Becoming the Marquise de Pompadour: The Letters of Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson" by Chloe Edmondson (Stanford). 

Bio:
Chloe Edmondson is a Lecturer in the French & Italian Department at Stanford University. She is also the France-Stanford Center Fellow for the Roxane Debuisson Collection on Paris History. Her research is situated at the crossroads of literary criticism, cultural history, and media studies, with a focus on Ancien Régime France. Her work has been published in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, the Journal of Modern History, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and the series Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, including the volume she co-edited with Dan Edelstein entitled Networks of Enlightenment: Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters (2019).

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