 Louise Dupin's literary salon at Chenonceau attracted such leaders of the Enlightenment as the writers Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Fontenelle, the naturalist Buffon, the playwright Marivaux, the philosopher Condillac, as well as the Marquise de Tencin and the Marquise du Deffand.Jean-Jacques Rousseau was Dupin's secretary and tutored her son.Rousseau, who worked on "Émile" at Chenonceau, wrote in his "Confessions"