Sophie d'Houdetot

thumb| Elisabeth Françoise Sophie Lalive de Bellegarde, Comtesse d'Houdetot (18 December 1730 – 28 January 1813) was a French noblewoman. She is remembered primarily for the brief but intense love she inspired in Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1757, but she was also for fifty years in a relationship with the poet and academician Jean François de Saint-Lambert. Quotes Virtue and Love are two ogres: one must eat the other. Reported in J. de Finod (ed.) A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1902) p. 23 I have seen more than one woman drown her honor in the clear water of diamonds. Reported in J. de Finod (1902) p. 31 External links Category:1730 births Category:1813 deaths Category:Letter writers Category:Women authors from France Category:Women born before the 19th century