Aglaé Louise Françoise Gabrielle de Polignac (7 May 1768 – 30 March 1803) was the daughter of Gabrielle de Polastron, the

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and confidante of

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, and her husband, the 1st ''duc de Polignac''.

Life

Aglaé was born in Paris in ''1768'', her parents were

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and Comtesse Jules ''de Polignac''. Her paternal grandparents were Marquis Louis Héracle Melchior de Polignac (1717–1792) and his wife, Diane Marie Adelaide Zephirine Mazzarini-Mancini (1726–1755). Her maternal grandparents were Jean François Gabriel, ''comte de Polastron'', and his wife, Jeanne Charlotte Hérault. Aglaé Louise was born at the

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in Paris, France, the eldest child and only daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Polignac. She had three brothers: Armand Jules Marie Héracle, duc de Polignac (11 January 1771 – 1 March 1847); Jules Auguste Armand Marie, prince de Polignac (14 May 1780 – 30 March 1847); and Camille Henri Melchior, comte de Polignac (27 December 1781 – 2 February 1855). At the Château de Versailles, on 11 July 1780, at the age of twelve, Aglaé married twenty-five-year-old Antoine-Louis, the '' duc de Gramont et Guiche''. She then became the Duchess of Guiche and was nicknamed "Guichette" by her family. Her son

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became the 9th Duke of Gramont. Her daughter Corisande Armandine Léonie Sophie de Gramont married

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, and another daughter, Aglaé Angélique Gabrielle de Gramont, was married in turn to Russian general Alexander Lvovich Davydov and French diplomat Horace Sébastiani. In 1794, according to ''The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun'', Marie-Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun painted a half-length portrait of the Duchess de Guiche wearing a blue turban, in

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. She wrote: "…I encountered the Duchesse de Guiche, whose lovely face had not changed in the least." On 30 March 1803, Aglaé de Polignac died in an accidental house fire at her home in

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, Scotland.

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'' and its

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adaptation, Aglaé is renamed Charlotte and is depicted killing herself rather than marry the Duc de Guiche (who is depicted as much older than in reality) at her mother's behest. Rosalie Lamorlière is depicted, ahistorically, as her illegitimate half-sister.

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