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Agathe de Rambaud. Born in Versailles Agathe-Rosalie Mottet, was baptised in the future cathedral Saint-Louis of Versailles? on December 10, 1764[1]. She died in Aramon, in the department of Gard, on October 19, 1853[2]. She was the berceuse des enfants de France[3], particularly in charge of the Dauphin from 1785 to 1792.


Before the Revolution

The Dauphin, Louis XVII of France, who she raised for seven years.

Agathe Mottet is the daughter of Louis Melchior Mottet, High comissioner of the French colonies[4] and of Jeanne Agathe Le Proux de La Rivière, who was herself the daughter of a First Comissioner of the French Navy . Agathe Mottet is the grand daughter of the Baron Claude Nicolas Louis Mottet de La Motte, officer of the Royal Fox hunting[5] and the niece of Benoît Mottet de La Fontaine, President of Pondicherry High Council. She was sometimes given the title of countess of Ribécourt [6] is used at that time as a courtesy title. Agathe Mottet marries André Rambaud who was a member of the bourgeoisie of Marseille[7], Captain and Knight of the Order of Saint Louis, on March 7, 1785, in Versailles, at the church of Saint Louis [8]. The witnesses of the bride are the Bailiff Pierre André de Suffren and Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse. By her wedding, she becomes the sister-in-law of Georges-René Pléville Le Pelley, admiral and minister of the French First Republic. Auguste de Rambaud, their first child, was born on January 11, 1786 and baptised[9]the following day at the lSaint-Louis parish of Versailles. The godfather is his uncle Georges-René Pléville Le Pelley, Captain of the French Royal Navy, future admiral and minister of the Navy and the colonies under the Directoire. When Madeleine Célinie de Rambaud was born on July 29, 1787 at Versailles, her father was no longer there: He was named Commander of three forts and governor of the kingdom of Galam , for the Company of Senegal[10]. Agathe de Rambaud is chosen by the queen to be the berceuse[11] of the duke of Normandy, born in 1785, who becomes the Dauphin at the death of his elder brother Louis-Joseph, Dauphin of France (1781-1789).

From the Revolution to the Empire

Her husband, André de Rambaud, is killed in 1789 at the fort Saint-Joseph de Galam, located at 500 kilometers from the coast of Senegal. Agathe de Rambaud flees the Palais des Tuileries with Jean-Baptiste Cléry, who speaks at length about her in his Journal About What Took Place in the Prison Temple During the Emprisonment of Louis XVI. They narrowly avoid the Abbey Prison, where so many prisoners were to die a few days later. From the first days of the Royal Family’s captivity, Madame de Rambaud asks in vain to serve at the Temple (Paris) the Dolphin Dauphin, Louis-Charles, and his parents. Agathe de Rambaud doesn’t emigrate, but has to hide because of her former functions, as some of her family members. After the Thermidorian Reaction most of her family and friends, who are incited by the new idealisms and the Free Masonry, zealously serve the French First Republic, the French Consulate and the First French Empire. She becomes close to many ministers, the mayor of Toulouse, the scientist Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse[12], and some generals. Georges-René Pléville Le Pelley, minister and Madame de Rambaud’s brother-in-law obtains an employment for the father of the latter.

The Restauration

Caroline Ferdinande Louise, duchesse de Berry who she meets at Montfort-l'Amaury and also receives in London her cousin, wife of Henry II Russell

Auguste, her son, resigns and joins the allied troops, then the king, and reaches Compiègne on March 29, 1814. The family joins in the new régime. Nevertheless, the expectations quickly disappear. From September 6, 1815, Agathe obtains only a 1000 francs pension from the King because of her previous official quality as nurse of the Dolphin. Auguste de Rambaud, War Comissioner at Gand, is paid only half-salary. Agathe de Rambaud meets again at Montfort-l'Amaury Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte of France, Caroline Ferdinande Louise, duchesse de Berry, and Louise-Elisabeth, Marquise de Tourzel, at her daughter-in -law’s uncle’s, the general count Louis Groult des Rivières, former Captain-Colonel surviving the Compagnie des Suisses from the Garde ordinaire du corps of the future Charles X. When Louis XVIII dies, Agathe de Rambaud is received at Court more frequently. Her grand-daughter will remember having seen her grand-mother talking with the Duchess of Angoulême, during the King’s visit to Naples, in 1827, at the castle, where Charles X, rested his hand upon our heads, asking each of us our age, he chatted a few moments with our grand-mother and inquired about her interests.[13]. Madame de Rambaud was received in parisian genteel society as well as the friends of the Duke Sosthène de La Rochefoucauld, who will write : Madame de Rambaud was a very honourable lady[14], as well as the friends of Count Charles d'Hozier, and also of Philippe Louis Marc Antoine de Noailles, Prince de Poix.

The Monarchy of July

Charles Naundorff lives at Agathe de Rambaud’s for more than a year. She receives in fact hundreds of persons among whom the former minister Étienne de Joly, important personalities who generally become partisans of Louis XVII, also called légitimistes.

The July Revolution Those three famous revolutionary days have no negative consequences upon the life of Agathe de Rambaud. The latter [15] seems to be one of the rare persons to hold he former civil list bearing the honor of receiving a 1000 franc pension due to the consideration she was the former lady of the chamber of the Dolphin, son of Louis XVI. Her daughter- in- law receives from the new king a 600 franc pension as a child of the former servants of the House of the King’s children. Her son, at first War Comissioner [16], then half-salary, after having noticed at Vendôme that his future in the army was non existant, rather went to India and then to Mexico city, where he eventually died in 1834. Afterward, Thérèse Gaudelet d'Armenonville [17], remarries with the count Amédée d'Allonville[18], Agathe de Rambaud must raise her grand children, Ernest de Rambaud, future student at the famous Polytechnical School polytechnicien, and Ernestine. At this very moment of her life, a man, pretending he is Louis XVII , but now an adult, comes back into her life. For more than one year, he lives at her home ; she questions him at length and raises old souvenirs. She also noticed the marks on his body which are identical to those she once saw and notified at the request of the Queen Marie-Antoinette d'Autriche on the body of the Dolphin Dauphin. Agathe de Rambaud almost up to her very death fought a long battle to attest to the rights of Charles-Guillaume Naundorff. Her home was searched by the police who seized besides a number of documents belonging to the Prince, family files and even presents from the Royal Family

The end of her life

Agathe de Rambaud will die many years later at Aramon. She lived there for years at the home of her grand-daughter’s husband,, rue Banasterie[19] à Avignon, by the Palais des Papes. She was first buried at Aramon, then her body was transferred to the new family tomb at Saint-Véran cemetery in Avignon. A street in Avignon this city bears is maiden name : Agathe Rosalie Mottet[20].

Notes

  1. ^ Baptismal certificate of Rosalie Mottet, filed by the AD (Departmental Archives) 78, 1112625, B, Versailles parish of Saint Louis, 1764, p. 78, The godfather was Sire Jean Augustin Accaron, Superintendant of the French colonies
  2. ^ The cimetery Saint-Véran in Avignon [1]
  3. ^ The official nurse of the royal children
  4. ^ A high comissioner would be the modern day Commander of the Fleet
  5. ^ so called Seigneur de la Motte, Baron fieffé de Saint Corneille, officier dans la vénerie du roi (officer of the Royal Hunt) in l'Annuaire de la noblesse de France et des maisons souveraines de l'Europe, 1869, p. 306 [2]
  6. ^ [3] ; La grande encyclopédie by Henri Monin Inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts. Volume 24, Moissonneuse-Nord. 1995. p.851 article by Karl-Wilhelm Naundorff
  7. ^ Montgrand, Comte Godefroy de, Armorial de la ville de Marseille : recueil officiel dressé par les ordres de Louis XIV / publ. pour la première fois, d'après les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque impériale, par le ..., éd. de, Marseille : A. Gueidon, 1864 [4]
  8. ^ Marriage certificate of Agathe de Rambaud, filed by Departmental Archives AD 78, 1112523, M, Versailles Saint Louis parish, 1785, p. 23, but also kept by the archives of the city de Versailles
  9. ^ Baptismal certificate of Georges, Auguste, Benoît de Rambaud, filed by Departmental Archives AD 78, 1112631, B, Versailles parish Saint Louis, 1786, p. 9
  10. ^ Baptismal certificate of Madeleine Célinie de Rambaud, legitimate daughter of Sire André, Benoist, Thérèse de Rambaud, Commander of the troops of Senegal..., filed by Departmental Archives AD 78, 1112632, B, Versailles parish Saint Louis, 1786, p. 57
  11. ^ Official nurse
  12. ^ Annuaire de la noblesse de France et des maisons souveraines de l'Europe, 19O2, pp. 228 à 233 see barons de Buissaison [5]
  13. ^ Family History ; Guy de Rambaud, letter partly quoted by Guy de Rambaud, Pour l'amour du Dauphin, p. 156
  14. ^ Viscount de Larochefoucauld’s memories , by Sosthène La Rochefoucauld, quoted by Guy de Rambaud, Pour l'amour du Dauphin, p. 193 : The persons the present Louis XVII was first interested in (…) were not able to face the testimony of a very honorable lady, formerly in the service of the Royal Family, and who testified that the person who had been introduced to her was, according to her perfect knowledge, the son of the august Marie- Antoinette
  15. ^ Late portrait of Agathe de Rambaud : http://www.memodoc.com/Rambaud.html
  16. ^ See Intendance militaire
  17. ^ Portait of Madame de Rambaud’s daughter-in -law http://www.memodoc.com/Allonville.html
  18. ^ Guy de Rambaud, La Maison d'Allonville [6]
  19. ^ La rue Banasterie [7]
  20. ^ and she is named among persons from Avignon on the site of the town hall [8]

Bibliographie

Sources et documents

  • Otto Friedrichs,Correspondance intime et inédite de Louis XVII, Charles-Louis, duc de Normandie "Naundorff" avec sa famille : 1834-1838 / avec introduction, notes et éclaircissements historiques en partie tirés des archives secrètes de Berlin par Otto Friedrichs, préface par Jules Bois. - Paris : H. Dargon, 1904-1905. - 2v : ill.
  • Jean-Baptiste Cléry, Journal de ce qui s'est passé à la tour du Temple pendant la captivité de Louis XVI, Londres, 1798.
  • Gruau, dit de la Barre, Abrégé de l'histoire des infortunes du Dauphin depuis l'époque où il a été enlevé de la Tour du Temple, jusqu'au moment de son arrestation par le gouvernement de Louis-Philippe, et de son expulsion en Angleterre ; suivi de quelques documents à l'appui des faits racontés par le Prince, et des incidents qui ont si péniblement traversé sa vie. À Londres, chez C. Armand, nov. 1836, Rédigé en collaboration avec Karl-Wilhelm Naundorff. Le 21 novembre 1836.

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