Anne-Antoinette Diderot family name Champion
Life
Provenance
Anne Antoinette's mother was born Marie de Malleville in 1676, the daughter of a soldier from Le Mans. In 1709 she married a manual worker called Ambroise Champion (ca.1665–1713), from the same region. The couple are known to have had six children. Ambroise Champion took work manufacturing "Étamine", a type of rough cloth used to make clothes and as a cheese cloth: he experienced money problems and died, financially ruined, in 1713, at a hospital in La Ferté-Bernard.
His widow now relocated to Paris, accompanied by her youngest daughter, Anne Antoinette. The girl attended a monastic school till 1729. In 1741, using the name Nanette, she was living with her mother Marie Champion in the Rue Boutebrie, where both women were supporting themselves with laundry, sewing and lace making.
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