List of Famous people with last name Tencin

Pierre Guérin de Tencin

First Name Pierre

Last Name Tencin

Born on August 22, 1680

Died on March 2, 1758 (aged 77)

Born in France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Pierre-Paul Guérin de Tencin, French ecclesiastic, was archbishop of Embrun and Lyon, and a cardinal. His sister was Claudine Guérin de Tencin.

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Claudine Guérin de Tencin

First Name Claudine

Born on April 27, 1682

Died on December 4, 1749 (aged 67)

Born in France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, Baroness of Saint-Martin-de-Ré, was a French salonist and author. She was the mother of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, who later became a prominent mathematician, philosophe and contributor to the Encyclopédie, though she left him on the steps of the Saint-Jean-le-Rond de Paris church a few days after his birth.

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