Epinay, Madame d', a French writer, unhappily married in her youth; became notorious for her illicit intimacy with Rousseau and Grimm; her “Mémoires et Correspondence” give a lively picture of her times (1725‒1783).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Epinal * Epiphanius, St.