Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes de Rémusat (5 January 1780 – 16 December 1821) was a French woman of letters. She married at sixteen, and was attached to the Empress Josephine as '' dame du palais'' in 1802.

Life

Talleyrand was among her admirers, and she was generally regarded as a woman of great intellectual capacity and personal grace. After her death, her ''Essai sur l'éducation des femmes'', was published and received academic approval, but it was not until her grandson, Paul de Rémusat, published her ''Mémoires'' (3 vols., Paris, 1879–80), which followed by some correspondence with her son (2 vols., 1881), that justice could be done to her literary talent. Claire's memoirs threw light not only on the Napoleonic court, but also on the youth and education of her son

Charles de Rémusat Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was ...

. He developed political views more liberal than those of his parents. She was the granddaughter of Jean Gravier, marquis de Vergennes, elder brother of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chief Minister of King Louis XVI, Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes.

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* * * * 1780 births 1821 deaths French women memoirists French ladies-in-waiting People of the First French Empire 19th-century French women writers 19th-century French memoirists Court of Napoleon {{france-nonfiction-writer-stub