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Émilie De Beauharnais
Émilie de Beauharnais, comtesse de Lavalette (1781–1855), was a French court official, ''dame d'atour'' to Empress Joséphine of France. Life She was the daughter of François VI de Beauharnais and Françoise de Beauharnais and thus related to Joséphine. She married Comte Antoine Marie Chamans de Lavalette, in 1798. She belonged to those called to be appointed when the first ladies-in-waiting were named for Joséphine. In 1804, when Napoleon named himself Emperor of France, and his wife Empress, he also created an Imperial court and had ladies-in-waiting appointed to empress Josephine. Adélaïde de La Rochefoucauld was made ''dame d'honneur'' and de Beauharnais made ''dame d'atour'', while Jeanne Charlotte du Luçay, Madame de Rémusat, Elisabeth Baude de Talhouët, Lauriston, d'Arberg, Marie Antoinette Duchâtel, Sophie de Segur, Séran, Colbert, Savary and Aglaé Louise Auguié Ney, were all made ''dame du Palais''. When Napoleon divorced Joséphine and married Marie Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Beauharnais
, type=Noble family, country=France, Sweden, Brazil, Portugal, Germany, Russia, estates= Château de La Ferté-BeauharnaisPalais LeuchtenbergMariinsky Palace, titles=* Queen of Sweden * Queen of Norway * Viceroy of Italy * French Prince * Prince of Eichstätt * Prince of Venice * Empress of Brazil * Duke of Galliera * Duke of Navarre * Duke of Leuchtenberg * Duke of Santa Cruz * Marquis of La Ferté, styles="Imperial Highness""Royal Majesty""Serene Highness", founded=, founder=Francis of Beauharnais, final ruler= Josephine, Queen of Sweden, current head=Nicolas de Leuchtenberg, deposition=, ethnicity=Breton (French) The House of Beauharnais (or ''House of Leuchtenberg''; ) is a French noble family. It is now headed by the Duke of Leuchtenberg, descendant in male line of Eugène de Beauharnais. History Originating in Brittany, the Beauharnais (or Beauharnois) became established in the fourteenth century in Orléans. When that city was besieged in 1429, Jehan Beauharnais played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Charlotte Du Luçay
Jeanne Charlotte du Luçay née ''Papillon d'Auteroche'' (1769-1842), was a French court official, ''Dame du Palais'' to Empress Joséphine and ''Dame d'atour'' to Empress Marie Louise of France. Life Jeanne Charlotte du Luçay was married to count Jean-Baptiste-Charles Legendre de Luçay (1754-1836), prefect at the Imperial court. Dame de Palais She belonged to those appointed ladies-in-waiting when the first Imperial Household was composed for empress Joséphine after the introduction of the monarchy in 1804: Adélaïde de La Rochefoucauld was created ''Dame d'honneur'' and Émilie de Beauharnais ''Dame d'atours'', while Jeanne Charlotte du Luçay, along with Madame de Rémusat, Elisabeth Baude de Talhouët, Madame Lauriston, Madame d'Arberg, Marie Antoinette Duchâtel, Sophie de Segur, Madame Séran, Madame Colbert, Madame Savary and Aglaé Louise Auguié Ney was made ''Dame du palais''. She participated in the coronation of Napoleon and Josephine on 2 December 1804. She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1855 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city. * January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru. * January 23 ** The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in modern-day Minneapolis, a predecessor of the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. ** The 8.2–8.3 Wairarapa earthquake claims between five and nine lives near the Cook Strait area of New Zealand. * January 26 – The Point No Point Treaty is signed in the Washington Territory. * January 27 – The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. * January 29 – Lord Aberdeen resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, over the management of the Crimean War. * February 5 – Lord Palmerston becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * February 11 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia. * February 12 – Michigan State University (the "pioneer" land- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1781 Births
Events January–March * January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament, aged 21. * January 1 – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens across the River Severn in England. * January 2 – Virginia passes a law ceding its western land claims, paving the way for Maryland to ratify the Articles of Confederation. * January 5 – American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces, led by Benedict Arnold. * January 6 – Battle of Jersey: British troops prevent the French from occupying Jersey in the Channel Islands. * January 17 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cowpens: The American Continental Army, under Daniel Morgan, decisively defeats British forces in South Carolina. * February 2 – The Articles of Confederation are ratified by Maryland, the 13th and final state to do so. * February 3 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War – Capture o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneviève D'Ossun
Geneviève d'Ossun née de Gramont (Paris, 1751 – 26 July 1794, Paris) was a French courtier. She served as ''dame d'atour'' to the queen of France, Marie Antoinette, from 1781 until 1791, and as ''première dame d'honneur'' from 1791 until 1792. Life She was the daughter of Count Antoine-Adrien-Charles de Gramont, the niece of Étienne François de Choiseul, duc de Choiseul, and — through her brother Antoine de Gramont — sister-in-law to Aglaé de Polignac, daughter of Yolande de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac. She married Marquis Charles d'Ossun, son of Pierre Paul d'Ossun in 1766, and was introduced at court after her wedding. Court service On 26 May 1781, she was appointed ''dame d'atour'' to the queen in succession to Marie-Jeanne de Talleyrand-Périgord, duchesse de Mailly, who retired for health reasons. As ''dame d'atour'', she was the supervisor of the wardrobe and dressing ceremony of the queen. Reportedly, she attempted to subdue the enormous costs of the que ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dame D'atour
''Dame d'atour'' was an office at the royal court of France. It existed in nearly all French courts from the 16th-century onward. The ''dame d'honneur'' was selected from the members of the highest French nobility. History At least from the Isabeau of Bavaria's tenure as queen, there had been a post named ''demoiselle d'atour'' or ''femme d'atour'', but this had originally been the title of the queen's chambermaids and divided among several people. The office of ''dame d'atour'', created in 1534, was one of the highest-ranking offices among the ladies-in-waiting of the queen and given only to members of the nobility.Nadine Akkerman & Birgit Houben, eds. ''The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-waiting across Early Modern Europe'' Leiden: Brill, 2013 The ''dame d'atour'' had the responsibility of the queen's wardrobe and jewelry and supervised the dressing of the queen and the chamber staff of ''femme du chambre''. When the ''dame d'honneur'' was absent, she was replaced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourbon Restoration In France
The Bourbon Restoration was the period of French history during which the House of Bourbon returned to power after the first fall of Napoleon on 3 May 1814. Briefly interrupted by the Hundred Days War in 1815, the Restoration lasted until the July Revolution of 26 July 1830. Louis XVIII and Charles X, brothers of the executed king Louis XVI, successively mounted the throne and instituted a conservative government intended to restore the proprieties, if not all the institutions, of the Ancien Régime. Exiled supporters of the monarchy returned to France but were unable to reverse most of the changes made by the French Revolution. Exhausted by decades of war, the nation experienced a period of internal and external peace, stable economic prosperity and the preliminaries of industrialization. Background Following the French Revolution (1789–1799), Napoleon Bonaparte became ruler of France. After years of expansion of his French Empire by successive military victories, a coaliti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Louise Of Austria
french: Marie-Louise-Léopoldine-Françoise-Thérèse-Josèphe-Lucie it, Maria Luigia Leopoldina Francesca Teresa Giuseppa Lucia , house = Habsburg-Lorraine , father = Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor , mother = Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily , religion = Roman Catholicism , signature = Signatur Marie-Louise von Österreich.PNG Marie Louise (12 December 1791 – 17 December 1847) was an Austrian archduchess who reigned as Duchess of Parma from 11 April 1814 until her death. She was Napoleon's second wife and as such Empress of the French and Queen of Italy from their marriage on 1 April 1810 until his abdication on 6 April 1814. As the eldest child of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor and Emperor of Austria, and his second wife, Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Marie Louise grew up during a period of continuous conflict between Austria and revolutionary France. A series of military defeats at the hands of Napoleon Bonaparte had inflicted a heavy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dame Du Palais
The Dame du Palais, originally only Dame, was an historical office in the Royal Court of France. It was a title of a lady-in-waiting holding the official position of personal attendant on a female member of the French Royal Family. The position was traditionally held by a female member of a noble family. They were ranked between the ''Première dame d'honneur'' and the ''Fille d'honneur''. They had previously been styled 'Dames'. The equivalent title and office has historically been used in most European royal courts (Dutch: ''Dames du Palais''; English: ''Lady of the Bedchamber''; German: ''Hofstaatsdame'' or ''Palatsdame''; Italian: ''Dame di Corte''; Russian: ''Hofdame'' or ''Statsdame''; Spanish: ''Dueña de honor''; Swedish: ''Statsfru''). The same title has been used for the equivalent position in the courts of Belgium, Greece and The Netherlands. History Dame and Dame d'honneur Initially, the married ladies-in-waiting who attended the queen of France had the title Dame. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame De Rémusat
Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes de Rémusat (5 January 1780 – 16 December 1821) was a French woman of letters. She married at sixteen, and was attached to the Empress Josephine as ''dame du palais'' in 1802. Life Talleyrand was among her admirers, and she was generally regarded as a woman of great intellectual capacity and personal grace. After her death, her ''Essai sur l'éducation des femmes'', was published and received academic approval, but it was not until her grandson, Paul de Rémusat, published her ''Mémoires'' (3 vols., Paris, 1879–80), which followed by some correspondence with her son (2 vols., 1881), that justice could be done to her literary talent. Claire's memoirs threw light not only on the Napoleonic court, but also on the youth and education of her son Charles de Rémusat. He developed political views more liberal than those of his parents. She was the grand-daughter of Jean Gravier, marquis de Vergennes, elder brother of the French Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dame D'honneur
Dame d'honneur or Dame d’honneur was a common title for two categories of French ladies-in-waiting, who are often confused because of the similarity. Dame d'honneur can be: * Short for Première dame d'honneur, which were commonly shortened to Dame d'honneur, or; * The full, formal title for Dame du Palais The Dame du Palais, originally only Dame, was an historical office in the Royal Court of France. It was a title of a lady-in-waiting holding the official position of personal attendant on a female member of the French Royal Family. The position ..., which until 1674 was formally called Dame d'honneur, though commonly shortened to Dame. French ladies-in-waiting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François VI De Beauharnais
François VI de Beauharnais, 2nd marquis de La Ferté-Beauharnais (also 3rd comte des Roches-Baritaud, baron de Beauville, seigneur de Beaumont et de Bellechauve; 12 August 1756, La Rochelle – 3 March 1846, Paris) was a French nobleman. He was the son of François V de Beauharnais, seigneur de Beaumont et de Bellechauve, baron de Beauville, 1st marquis de La Ferté-Beauharnais, and of his wife Marie Anne Henriette Françoise Pyvart de Chastullé. This made him the elder brother of Alexandre de Beauharnais and the uncle of Napoleon's stepchildren Eugène and Hortense. Life He represented the nobility of États Généraux of 1789, but later emigrated to join Condé's army as a major general. However, he later rallied to the First French Empire, which sent him on various diplomatic missions. Francis VI of Beauharnais was one of the great-grandfathers of the family Eslandoost de Beauville. Marriages and issue On 1 May 1778 François de Beauharnais married Françoise de Beauharn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
