Suzanne Necker
b. 1739, Crassier, Switzerland; d. 1794, Beaulieu, France
Married to Jacques Necker, the French minister of finance under Louis XVI, Suzanne Necker hosted a brilliant Parisian salon that attracted the likes of Denis Diderot, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Friedrich Melchior Grimm, and Jean-François Marmontel. She established the Hôtel Necker, a hospital for poverty-stricken patients. After Necker’s death, her husband published her collected writings as Mélanges (1798 and 1801), moral musings that reveal her strong religious convictions. Her daughter was Germaine de Staël.
J. H. Lips. Suzanne Necker, circa 1775–1800. National Portrait Gallery, London
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