French marchionesses

The list French marchionesses includes Adrienne de La Fayette, Mathilde de Morny, Gabrielle d'Estrées, Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles and Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand. The list consists of 44 members and 1 sublist.

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Adrienne de La Fayette

French noblewoman

Overview: Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de La Fayette (2 November 1759 – 24 December 1807), the daughter of Jean de Noailles, and Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau, married Gilbert du Motier, marquis ...

Date of birth: 2 November 1759

Date of death: 24 December 1807

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Spouse

Gender: Female

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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette 31T

Burials at Picpus Cemetery 19T

House of Noailles 44T
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Pauline Félicité de Mailly

French noblewoman and mistress of Louis XV

Overview: Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle (1712–1741), marquise de Vintimille, was the second of the five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become mistresses of King Louis XV of France. She was his ...

Date of birth: 1712

Date of death: 9 September 1741

Age: 29 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

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French untitled nobility 58T

Mistresses of Louis XV 22T

1741 deaths 220T
3.

Marie Anne de Mailly

French noblewoman and mistress of Louis XV

Overview: Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchesse de Châteauroux (5 October 1717 – 8 December 1744) was the youngest of the five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become the mistress of King Louis XV ...

Date of birth: 5 October 1717

Date of death: 8 December 1744

Age: 27 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

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18th-century letter writers 51T

Mistresses of Louis XV 22T

1744 deaths 208T
4.

Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan

Most celebrated maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XIV of France

Overview: Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan (Madame de Montespan; 5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707) was the most celebrated maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XIV, by whom she had ...

Date of birth: 5 October 1640

Date of death: 27 May 1707

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

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Household of Maria Theresa of Spain 7T

Affair of the Poisons 27T

Mistresses of Louis XIV 17T
5.

Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon

Morganatic wife of Louis XIV of France

Overview: Françoise d'Aubigné (27 November 1635 – 15 April 1719), known first as Madame Scarron and subsequently as Madame de Maintenon ( ), was a French noblewoman who secretly married King Louis XIV. Although ...

Date of birth: 27 November 1635

Date of death: 15 April 1719

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Female

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17th-century letter writers 18T

18th-century letter writers 51T

Court of Louis XIV 21T
6.

Mathilde de Morny

French painter

Overview: Mathilde de Morny (26 May 1863 – 29 June 1944) was a French aristocrat and artist. Morny was also known by the nickname "Missy" or by the artistic pseudonym "Yssim" (an anagram of Missy), or as "Max" ...

Date of birth: 26 May 1863

Date of death: 29 June 1944

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

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1944 suicides 39T

20th-century French women 31T

19th-century French women 48T
7.

Adélaïde Victoire Hall

French painter

Overview: Adélaïde Victoire Hall, called Adèle (11 May 1772 – 14 October 1844), was a Swedish-French artist and noble (marquise). She was given the honorary title of agré of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts ...

Date of birth: 11 May 1772

Date of death: 14 October 1844

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Female

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18th-century French women artists 75T

19th-century French women artists 192T

19th-century women artists 1,224T
8.

Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau

French noblewoman (1711–1786)

Overview: Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau, Marquise of Boufflers (8 December 1711 – 1 July 1786), commonly known as Madame de Boufflers, was a French noblewoman. She was the royal mistress of Stanislas Les ...

Date of birth: 1711

Date of death: 1787

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Gender: Female

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Mistresses of Polish royalty 32T

Beauvau family 6T

People from Lunéville 50T
9.

Thérésa Tallien

French courtesans

Overview: Thérésa Cabarrus, Madame Tallien (31 July 1773 – 15 January 1835), was a Spanish-born French noble, salon holder and social figure during the Revolution. Later she became Princess of Chimay.

Date of birth: 31 July 1773

Date of death: 15 January 1835

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

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French salon-holders 99T

French female salon-holders 50T

People of the French Revolution 228T
10.

Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues

Overview: Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues, Marquise de Verneuil (1579–1633) was the favourite mistress of Henry IV of France after Gabrielle d'Estrées died: her sister Marie-Charlotte de Balzac d’Entragues ...

Date of birth: 1579

Date of death: 1633

Age: 53 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Gender: Female

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Mistresses of Henry IV of France 19T

1579 births 156T

1633 deaths 192T
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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

French noble

Overview: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (5 February 1626 – 17 April 1696), also widely known as Madame de Sévigné or Mme de Sévigné, was a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. Most ...

Date of birth: 5 February 1626

Date of death: 17 April 1696

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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17th-century letter writers 18T

Women letter writers 124T

Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine 12T
12.

Gabrielle d'Estrées

Mistress and advisor to Henry IV of France

Overview: Gabrielle d'Estrées, Duchess of Beaufort and Verneuil, Marchioness of Monceaux (1573 – 10 April 1599) was a mistress, confidante and adviser of Henry IV of France. She persuaded Henry to renounce ...

Date of birth: 1571

Date of death: 10 April 1599

Age: 27 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Gender: Female

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Mistresses of Henry IV of France 19T

Marquesses of Monceaux 1T

Dukes of Verneuil 2T
13.

Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland

French actress turned British aristocrat

Overview: Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Wellesley, Marchioness Wellesley (1766 – 7 November 1816), formerly Hyacinthe Gabrielle Fagan and also known as Hyacinthe Gabrielle Fagan, was a French actress who became the ...

Date of birth: 1766

Date of death: 7 November 1816

Age: 50 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Irish marchionesses 17T

Irish countesses 91T

18th-century French actresses 76T
14.

Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet

French aristocrat and memoirist (1770–1853)

Overview: Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour-du-Pin-Gouvernet (25 February 1770, Paris – 2 April 1853, Pisa) (also known as Lucie) was a French aristocrat famous for her posthumously published memoirs entitled ...

Date of birth: 25 February 1770

Date of death: 2 April 1853

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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French women memoirists 58T

Household of Catherine de' Medici 23T

Household of Marie Antoinette 19T
15.

Sophie de Condorcet

salon hostess

Overview: Sophie de Condorcet (1764 in Meulan – 8 September 1822 in Paris), best known as Madame de Condorcet, was a prominent salon hostess from 1789 to the Reign of Terror, and again from 1799 until her ...

Date of birth: 1764

Date of death: 8 September 1822

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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18th-century French women writers 67T

French salon-holders 99T

People from Meulan-en-Yvelines 19T
16.

Adelaide Filleul, Marquise de Souza-Botelho

French novelist

Overview: Adélaïde-Emilie (sometimes Émilie-Adélaïde) Filleul, Marquise de Souza-Botelho (14 May 1761 – 19 April 1836) was a French writer.

Date of birth: 14 May 1761

Date of death: 19 April 1836

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Gender: Female

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House of Talleyrand-Périgord 18T

French salon-holders 99T

Writers from Paris 1,366T
17.

Madame de Brinvilliers

French murderer (1630–1676)

Overview: Marie-Madeleine d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers (22 July 1630 – 16 July 1676) was a French aristocrat who was accused and convicted of murdering her father and two of her brothers in order to inherit ...

Date of birth: 1630

Date of death: 1676

Age: 45 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Female

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Prisoners of the Bastille 48T

17th-century French criminals 8T

French female serial killers 11T
18.

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles

French writer and salonnière (1647–1733)

Overview: Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles (1647 – 12 July 1733), who on her marriage became Madame de Lambert, Marquise de Saint-Bris, and is generally known as the Marquise de Lambert, was a French ...

Date of birth: 1647

Date of death: 1733

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Gender: Female

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18th-century French women writers 67T

French salon-holders 99T

Writers from Paris 1,366T
19.

Louise Élisabeth de Croÿ

French writer and noble

Overview: Louise-Élisabeth de Croÿ de Tourzel (Louise Élisabeth Félicité Françoise Armande Anne Marie Jeanne Joséphine de Croÿ de Tourzel) 11 June 1749 – 15 May 1832), the Marquise de Tourzel (later Duchess) was ...

Date of birth: 11 June 1749

Date of death: 1830

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: French

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French women memoirists 58T

Louis XVII 10T

Court of Louis XVI 8T
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Émilie du Châtelet

French mathematician, physicist, and author (1706–1749)

Overview: Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet ( 17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749) was a French natural philosopher and mathematician from the early 1730s until her death due to c ...

Date of birth: 17 December 1706

Date of death: 10 September 1749

Age: 42 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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French women physicists 33T

18th-century French women writers 67T

18th-century French philosophers 19T