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Saint-Lambert, Jean-François, Marquis de (1716–1803)| French poet and philosopher. He was one of the Encyclopédistes. His poem Les Saisons/The Seasons appeared 1769, based on the poem of the same name by the Scottish poet James Thomson. |
| Saint-Lambert was born in Nancy, Lorraine. He entered the service of Stanislas, King of Poland, and served in the French army in Germany 1756–57, but ill health forced him to retire. He was the lover of the Marquise de Boufflers, the Marquise de Châtelet, and Madame d'Houdetot (the ‘Julie’ of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse 1761). |
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