Marie Anne Doublet

After the death of her husband, Doublet was the friend and possible lover of Louis Petit de Bachaumont; she was a supporter of parlement.

[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.

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