Nathalie-Victurnienne-Delphine de Rochechouart de Mortemart (5 January 1759, in
Paris – 25 December 1828), later ''marquise de Rougé'', was a sister of
Victurnien-Jean-Baptiste de Rochechouart, 9th
Duke of Mortemart, and by marriage a member of the
House of Rougé
The de Rougé family whose former name was des Rues is a family of the French nobility from Anjou and dating back to the 14th century.Henri Jougla de Morenas, ''Grand Armorial de France'', tome VI page 74.
Some historians believe that the exiti ...
, a noble family of
Breton
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** Breton people
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** Breton (horse), a breed
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origin.
Life
The daughter of Jean-Victor de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart (1712–71), Victurnienne-Delphine de Rochechouart-Mortemart was married in 1777 to Bonabes-Jean-Catherine-Alexis de Rougé, 3rd marquis de Rougé (son of
Pierre François de Rougé and Julie de Coëtmen), who died five years later while returning from the West Indies on board the ship of the line ''Zélé'', after having fought in the
War of American Independence
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. They had two surviving children: Bonabes-Louis-Victurnien-''Alexis'', marquis de Rougé (1778–1838); and comte
Adrien de Rougé
Adrien Gabriel Victurnien de Rougé (2 July 1782 in Everly – 16 June 1838 in Guyencourt), was a French statesman, distinguished soldier, and Peer of France member of the House of Rougé.
Adrien was a son of Bonabes, Marquis de Rougé a ...
(1782–1861); Félix, Comte de Rougé, died young.
In 1789 she and her sons left France for Switzerland, and in 1790 they returned and lived in seclusion at the Château de
Moreuil with her husband's aunt, Innocente-''Catherine''-Renée, Duchess d'Elbeuf and Princess de Lorraine (1707–1794; widow of
Emmanuel-Maurice de Lorraine). In 1791, with her children, her mother, and M
me de Pezay (the former Caroline de
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France
* Murat, Allier, a commune in the department of Allier
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), the Marquise de Rougé emigrated to Germany, settling first in
Heidelberg. The comte d'Espinchal encountered them there, noting in his journal:
In 1796 the Marquise de Rougé moved to Neustadt, near
Vienna, where Adrien was admitted to the military academy. She lived in Altona and Münster before returning to Paris in 1798. At first she had to take room and board in a home run by former nuns, as her lands had been expropriated and sold. Her sons joined her in France in 1800. She died on 25 December 1828.
References
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1759 births
1828 deaths
House of Rochechouart
Marquesses of Rougé
Place of birth missing
French marchionesses