Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Claudine Guérin de Tencin

French writer and salonist

Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1682

Place of Birth: Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 04-Dec-1749

Profession: writer, salonnière, novelist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, Baroness of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (27 April 1682 – 4 December 1749), was a French salonist and author.
She was the mother of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, philosophe and contributor to the Encyclopédie, though she left him on the steps of the Saint-Jean-le-Rond de Paris church a few days after his birth.