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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.
She married
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 wasHenriette Campan
Henriette Campan (Jeanne Louise Henriette; ''née'' Genet; 2 OctoberMadame Campan, ''Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France'', 1752 16 March 1822) also known as Madame Campan, was a French educator, writer and Lady's maid. In t ...
and uncle was Citizen Genêt
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.
Court
She served as lady-in-waiting ( Dame du Palais) to EmpressJoséphine de Beauharnais
Joséphine Bonaparte (, born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie; 23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814) was the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I and as such Empress of the French from 18 May 1804 until their marriage was annulled on 10 Janua ...
in 1804–1810, and to Empress Marie Louise
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in 1810-1813. She was a close friend of Hortense de Beauharnais
Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte (; , ; 10 April 1783 – 5 October 1837) was Kingdom of Holland, Queen of Holland as the wife of King Louis Bonaparte. She was the stepdaughter of Emperor Napoléon I as the daughter of his first wife, Joséphi ...
, Napoléon I
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's stepdaughter who married his brother, Louis Bonaparte
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, who had been made King of Holland
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, making her her stepfather’s sister-in-law..
Personal life
She married Michel Ney
Michel Ney, 1st Prince de la Moskowa, 1st Duke of Elchingen (; 10 January 1769 – 7 December 1815), was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
The son of ...
Arnaud Chaffanjon, Napoléon et l’univers impérial, Paris, Serg, 1969 at Thiverval-Grignon
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Points of interest
* Arboretum de Grignon
* Jardin botanique de l'Institut National
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*Communes of the Yvelines departmen ...
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
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, Governor of the Bank of France
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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 Joseph Souham
Joseph, comte Souham (; 30 April 1760 – 28 April 1837) was a French general who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was born at Lubersac and died at Versailles. After long service in the French Royal Army, he ...
, in 1833. He died at Gallipoli
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during the Crimean War
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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 Malta
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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