Aglaé Auguié (24 March 1782 – 2 July 1854), was a French court official and wife of the senior army commander Marshal of the Empire Ney.

Early life

Aglaé was born in Paris on 24 March 1782. She was a daughter of Pierre César Auguié (1738–1815) and Adélaïde Henriette Genet (1758–1794). Her aunt was Henriette Campan and uncle was

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Court

She served as lady-in-waiting (

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) to Empress

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in 1804–1810, and to Empress

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in 1810-1813. She was a close friend of

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's stepdaughter who married his brother,

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, who had been made King of Holland, making her her stepfather’s sister-in-law..

Personal life

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She married Michel NeyArnaud Chaffanjon, Napoléon et l’univers impérial, Paris, Serg, 1969 at Thiverval-Grignon on 5 August 1802. Together, they had four sons: * Napoléon Joseph Ney, 2nd Prince de la Moskowa (1803–1857), who married Albine Laffitte, daughter of Jacques Laffitte, Governor of the

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, in 1828. * Michel Louis Félix Ney (1804–1854), recognized as 2nd Duc d'Elchingen in 1826, he married Marie-Joséphine Souham, daughter of

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, in 1833. He died at

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during the

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. * Eugène Michel Ney (1806–1845), who died unmarried. * Edgar Napoléon Henry Ney, 3rd Prince de la Moskowa (1812–1882), who married Clotilde de La Rochelambert in 1869. Their marriage was childless and the title of Prince de la Moskowa then reverted to the descendants of Michel Louis Félix. After the execution of her first husband, she secretly married Brigadier General Marie Louis Jules d'Y de Résigny (1788–1857) in Italy in 1816. Another officer with Napoleon, he had been imprisoned in

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until August 1816. She died in Paris on 2 July 1854.

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* 1782 births 1854 deaths French ladies-in-waiting People of the First French Empire Court of Napoleon People from Paris {{France-bio-stub