Françoise de La Chassaigne

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Françoise Léonore de La Chassaigne or Françoise de Montaigne (* December 15, 1544 - March 7, 1627 ) was a French nobleman and wife of Michel de Montaigne .

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Françoise de La Chassaigne was the daughter of Joseph de La Chassaigne (approx. 1515–1572) a squire , écuyer , knight , Seigneur de Javerlhac , advisor to King Francis I in the Parliament from 1538 to 1543, President of the Parliament from Bordeaux in 1569 and his wife named Marguerite de Douhet (* around 1515). The two had been married since May 11, 1538. She had three brothers Geoffroy de La Chassaigne, soudan de Pressac (1540–1623), François de La Chassaigne, Nicolas de La Chassaigne and a sister Jeanne de La Chassaigne (approx. 1562–1628)

On Sunday September 23, 1565 she married Michel de Montaigne. Michel was 32 and Françoise was 21 at the wedding. She bore him six daughters, only one - Léonor or Éléonore Eyquem de Montaigne (September 9, 1571– January 23, 1616) - survived. On June 28, 1570, the couple's daughter Thoinette was born, she died two months later. On September 9, 1571, Léonor was born the only child that lived to see adulthood; on July 5, 1573 another daughter who died after seven weeks, then on December 27, 1574 a daughter who was emergency baptized and died three months later, on May 16, 1577 a daughter who died after a month and finally on February 21 1583 a daughter named Marie who died a few days after her birth.

2nd floor: View from the cloakroom in an easterly direction. The tower (white plastering with a conical roof) at the end of the east wing of the palace belonged to his wife, Françoise de La Chassaigne.
East-facing window. The spire in the background is his wife's tower.

Florimond de Raemond describes his friend's wife as a woman of extraordinary beauty and great charm.

Françoise de Montaigne and her husband led their everyday lives on separate paths. She lived in the Montaigne Castle in the Tour de Madame while he was in his library tower. The mother-in-law Antoinette de Louppes de Villeneuve (1514-1603) was able to stay in the main building of the castle, which she lived in until 1587.

Not only was her husband's relationship with his mother, she died in 1603, but also her relationship with her mother-in-law Antoinette de Louppes de Villeneuve was fraught with conflict.

The daughter Éléonore Eyquem de Montaigne married on May 27, 1590 her first husband named François de La Tour (1559-1594). The couple received a dowry of 20,000 livres for the wedding . The couple lived in Saintonge and had a daughter named Françoise de la Tour. On October 20, 1608, Éléonore married her second husband named Charles de Raymond de Gamaches († 1630).

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  1. ↑ the year of birth is sometimes given as 1545
  2. ↑ the year of death is occasionally given as 1602
  3. ↑ Gaspard Thaumas de la Thaumassière : Histoire de Berry. Sur les Gamaches établis en Berry, voir Livre XI. chapitre 21, pages 897 sq. Bourges, 1689
  4. ^ Biographical data of Françoise de La Chassaigne
  5. ↑ Françoise de La Chassaigne, gw.geneanet.org [1]
  6. ^ Jean Lacouture: Michel de Montaigne. A life between politics and philosophy. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-593-36025-X , p. 145.
  7. ^ Biographical data of the daughter Éléonore de Montaigne
  8. ↑ There were 438 days from the 1st to the 2nd birth, then 665 days, then 540 days, then 871 days and finally 2097 days of rest. The average gestation duration of 266 days has to be subtracted from these times in order to consider the interval between the individual births.
  9. ↑ Sarah Bakewell: How should I live? or The Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Answers. CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63969-2 , p. 183.
  10. ↑ Sarah Bakewell: How should I live? or The Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Answers. CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63969-2 , p. 177.
  11. ↑ Saul Frampton: When I play with my cat, how do I know she's not playing with me? Montaigne and the questions of life. Knaus, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8135-0454-5 , pp. 279-280
  12. ↑ Biographical data on Charles de Raymond de Gamaches
personal data
SURNAME La Chassaigne, Françoise de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES La Chassaigne, Françoise Léonore de (full name); Montaigne, Françoise de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman and wife of Michel de Montaigne
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1544
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1627