Émilie Louise Marie Françoise Joséphine Pellapra (11 November 1806 – 22 May 1871),
comtesse
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de Brigode,
princesse de Chimay, was the daughter of
Françoise-Marie LeRoy and possibly
Napoleon I of France
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.
She claimed to be the product of her mother's affair with the French Emperor which supposedly took place in April 1805, but this date is impossible with Émilie's birth in November 1806. She was first married to Count
Louis-Marie of Brigode and later married to Prince
Joseph de Riquet de Caraman, 17th prince de Chimay.
Early life
She was born in
Lyon
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on November 11, 1806, the daughter of Madame Pellapra, née
Françoise-Marie LeRoy, the wife of a rich financier named Henri (de) Pellapra.
For Émilie to have been the daughter of Napoleon it would have been necessary that he stayed in Lyon in February 1806. However, no stay in this city at that time seems to have taken place and, according to several authors (in particular André Gavoty in the Bulletin de l'Institut Napoleon April 1950), Napoleon only met LeRoy in 1810.
Personal life
Émilie married Count
Louis Marie de Brigode (1777–1827), a politician under the
First French Empire
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and the
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France under the House of Bourbon:
* Bourbon Restoration in France (1814, after the French revolution and Napoleonic era, until 1830; interrupted by the Hundred Days in 1815)
Spain under the Spanish Bourbons:
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. He was from an old noble family from
French Flanders
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and his elder brother
Romain-Joseph de Brigode-Kemlandt. Before his early death, they were the parents of twins:
* Fernand de Brigode (1827–1830), who died young.
* Louis Marie ''Henri'' Pierre Désiré de Brigode (1827–1859), marquis of Brigode, French peer, Mayor of
Romilly; he married Annette du Hallay-Coëtquen (1831–1905).
The Comte de Brigode died in
Bourbonne-les-Bains
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Second marriage
She remarried on 30 August 1830 to Prince
Joseph de Riquet de Caraman (1808-1886)
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, 17th prince de Chimay, son of Prince
François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet
François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet (21 September 1771 - 2 March 1843), comte de Caraman was the 16th Prince de Chimay from 24 July 1804 to 1843.
Early life
François-Joseph-Philippe was born in Paris on 21 September 1771. He was a son of Victor M ...
and
Thérésa Cabarrus, and had four children:
* Marie Thérèse Émilie de Riquet (1832–1851), who married the politician
Frédéric Lagrange
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and became the countess of Lagrange.
*
Marie Joseph Guy Henry Philippe de Riquet, 18th prince de Chimay (1836–1892), who married firstly Marie de
Montesquiou-Fezensac, then Mathilde de Barandiaran; father of
Marie Joseph Anatole Élie and
Élisabeth, comtesse Greffulhe.
* Valentine de Riquet (1839–1914), Comtesse de Caraman-Chimay, first Princess Paul de
Bauffremont
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, then Princess Georges Bibesco.
* Eugène de Riquet (1847–1881), married Louise de Graffenried-Villars; his daughter Hélène Marie married
John Francis Charles, 7th Count de Salis-Soglio
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Family background
He was the elder son of Count John Francis William de Salis (1825–1871), a diplomat ...
.
She died at the
Château de Menars
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History
Towards 1646, Guillaume Charron, adviser of t ...
on May 22, 1871.
References
Further reading
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1806 births
1871 deaths
French princesses
Illegitimate children of Napoleon
19th-century French memoirists