Her letters provide a valuable source of information on life in France before the French Revolution of 1789.

The Suards remained loyal to the Bourbon regime and experienced difficulty during the revolutionary years, but resumed their salons in 1800 under Napoleon.

Possibly at the suggestion of Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse he was given seat 26 of the Académie Française in 1772.

[5] Amélie Suard began to visit the salons in the 1760s, where she was to be a leading figure for the remainder of the Ancien Régime.

Amélie managed to charm Madame Geoffrin, who supported the Suard's petite ménage from then on.

Madame d'Épinay reported in a letter to Ferdinando Galiani, "An unknown individual has placed a sum of twenty thousand byres to be placed on the head of M. and Mme Suard as a lifetime income.

[8] In June 1775 her brother took Amélie to Ferney to visit Voltaire, then aged 77, a philosopher whom they both greatly admired.

She was not disappointed, and described the meeting in a series of letters to her husband that combine trivial observations of Voltaire's appearance and habits with philosophical thoughts.

[10] Amélie and her husband became close friends of Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert when he began to frequent Necker's salon in the 1770s.

[5] The Suards held a salon frequented by people such as Joseph Joubert, Madame Geoffrin, Jacques Necker and his wife, D'Alembert and François-René de Chateaubriand.

[12] During the worst days of the French Revolution the Suards retired to a small house they owned at Fontenai.

[14] After Madame de Staël warned her father that it was dangerous for him to shelter proscribed people J.

[16] In 1799 she joined her husband in Frankfurt, and the two moved to Ansbach where they lived among a small colony of exiles for a year.