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Suzanne Curchod
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Suzanne Curchod (1737 – 6 May 1794) was the wife of Jacques Necker.
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She hosted one of the most celebrated salons of the Ancien Régime.
Daughter of the pastor of the village of Crassier in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, Suzanne was well educated but poor. In 1757 she met the historian Edward Gibbon, who wished to marry her, but paternal disapproval on both sides and Suzanne's refusal to leave Switzerland for England thwarted the plans.
In 1764 she broke finally with Gibbon and married the ambitious Swiss financier Jacques Necker.
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They had one child, a daughter named Germaine, better known as Madame de Staël.
In 1776 her husband became Controller-General of Finances, head of the French finance ministry, this in spite of the double disadvantage of his Protestant religion and Swiss origins.
Much of this success he owed to his wife's salon, where the luminaries of Pa