Charlotte-Jeanne Béraud de la Haye de Riou, Marquise de Montesson

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Madame de Montesson

Charlotte Jeanne Béraud de La Haye de Riou, marquise de Montesson (born October 4, 1738 in Paris , † February 5, 1806 in Paris), also known as Madame de Montesson , was a French noblewoman and writer .

Life

Charlotte Jeanne came from an old noble family in Brittany and married the 67-year-old Jean Baptiste, marquis de Montesson, in Paris in 1754 . Her husband introduced her to the royal court at Versailles . Her beauty and intelligence caught the attention of Duke Ludwig Philipp I of Orléans , making her his maîtresse en titre . During the years the Duke of Orléans tried his third cousin, King Louis XV. to get permission to marry. The king agreed in 1772 with the condition that the marriage could only be concluded as a marriage to the left and that Madame de Montesson was not allowed to bear the title of Duchess of Orléans.

Vigée-Lebrun : La Marquise de Montesson, oil on canvas, around 1780/1890

On April 23, 1773, Charlotte-Jeanne married Duke Louis Philippe in the Palais Royal and received the Sainte-Assise Castle in Seine-Port as a wedding gift . The couple had to move out of the Palais Royal and the Saint-Cloud Castle and from then on lived in seclusion at Le Raincy Castle . Madame de Montesson entertained her husband there by setting up a small theater and writing and performing her own plays. Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges has been appointed conductor. They also took care of the infrastructure of their lands and the population. Shortly before the death of her husband, Charlotte-Jeanne took the young Jean-Baptiste, comte de Valence, as a lover, who was the son-in-law of Félicité de Genlis .

Madame de Montesson was arrested in 1794 and was due to appear before the Revolutionary Tribunal when the 9th Thermidor disaster struck. Using the Thérésia Cabarrus known as Notre-Dame de Thermidor , the later wife of Jean Lambert Talliens , whom they had met in prison together with Joséphine de Beauharnais , they were freed from Tallien and received through him some of their confiscated property.

She died in Paris on February 5, 1806 and bequeathed her property to her last lover, Jean-Baptiste de Valence.

literature

  • Gaston Capon and R. Ive-Plessis: Les Théâtres clandestins du XVIIIe siècle . 1904.
  • Jean Harmand (Ed.): L'Automne d'un prince. Le duc Philippe d'Orléans et la marquise de Montesson, 1773 (lettres inédites) . A collection of letters from the Duke to his second wife. B. Grasset, 1910.
  • G. Strenger: La Société de la marquise de Montesson . Nouvelle revue, 1902.
  • Joseph Turquan: Madame de Montesson, douairière d'Orléans (1738-1806). Étude de femmes et de mœurs au XVIIIe siècle . J. Tallandier, Paris 1904.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd: Burke's Royal Families of the World . Volume 1. Burke's Peerage, London 1977, p. 86.
  2. ↑ Death of Madame de Montesson  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / zs.thulb.uni-jena.de   . In: Journal of Luxury and Fashions . Vol. 21, March 1806, pp. 169-171.
personal data
SURNAME Montesson, Charlotte-Jeanne Béraud de La Haye de Riou, Marquise de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Béraud de la Haye de Riou, Charlotte-Jeanne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1806
Place of death Paris