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Catherine Lefebvre (curler)
Catherine Lefebvre (born 1 May 1959) is a French curler.
She participated in the demonstration curling event at the 1988 Winter Olympics, where the French women's team finished in eighth place.
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![Madame Sans-Gêne](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Madame_Sans-G%C3%AAne.jpg)
Catherine Hübscher (
Goldbach-Altenbach
Goldbach-Altenbach is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
See also
* Communes of the Haut-Rhin département
The following is a list of the 366 communes of the French department of Haut-Rhin.
The comm ...
, 2 February 1753 – 1835) was a
First French Empire
The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire (; Latin: ) after 1809, also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental E ...
aristocrat, wife to
François Joseph Lefebvre
François Joseph Lefebvre ( , ; 25 October 1755 – 14 September 1820), Duc de Dantzig, was a French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon.
Ea ...
,
Marshal of the Empire
Marshal of the Empire (french: Maréchal d'Empire) was a civil dignity during the First French Empire. It was created by '' Sénatus-consulte'' on 18 May 1804 and to a large extent reinstated the formerly abolished title of Marshal of France. Ac ...
and Duke de Dantzig.
Known as a woman of modest origins and of strong temperament, she is best known by her nickname of Madame Sans-Gêne, though this was only attributed to her by the dramatist
Victorien Sardou
Victorien Sardou ( , ; 5 September 18318 November 1908) was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play. He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-centur ...
- the nickname's first holder was the woman soldier
Thérèse Figueur, whom
Napoleon I of France gave the nickname Madame Sans-Gêne.
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1753 births
1835 deaths
French duchesses
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
People from Haut-Rhin