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'''''Madame de La Carlière''''', sub-titled ''On the inconsequence of public judgement of our actions,'' is a [[fable]] written by the French writer [[Denis Diderot]] in 1772, and published for the first time in 1798.<ref>Œuvres complètes de [[Denis Diderot|Diderot]] éditées par [[Jacques-André Naigeon|Naigeon]], Paris, Desray, 1798.</ref> It was published posthumously, as Diderot had died in 1784.
Preceded by ''[[Ceci n'est pas un conte|This is not a fable]]'' and followed by ''[[Supplément au voyage de Bougainville|Supplement to the Voyage of Bougaineville]]'', it forms a [[triptych]] of moral fables written in 1772<ref>[[Denis Diderot|Diderot]] indicated the end of his revisions in a letter to [[Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm]] dated the 23 September 1772.</ref> that would appear in the Literary Correspondence in 1773.<ref>For more details on this triptych, we may read the introduction written for the article consecrated in the first volume, ''This is not a fable.''</ref>
''Madame de La Carlière'' takes its name from the mother of [[Sophie Volland]], Élisabeth Françoise Brunel de La Carlière.<ref>Raymond Trousson, Denis Diderot, Paris, Tallandier, 2005, p. 212.</ref>
In 1988, ''Madame de La Carlière'' was performed as a stage piece alongside Diderot's novel ''Rameau's Nephew'' at [[New York University]], as part of a celebration commemorating the 200th anniversary of the [[French Revolution]] and the [[Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen]].<ref name="nyu">Bernstein, Richard, "This Time, Bicentennial Is France's," ''[[The New York Times]]'', 29 September 1988.</ref>
==Bibliography==
* Laffitte M., ''Diderot : hésitations autour de la promesse (Histoire de Madame de la Carlière)''. In : ''Revue romane'' (ISSN 0035-3906), 1992, vol. 27, n°1, p.&nbsp;90-103.
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