Jeanne d'Urfé

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Jeanne Marquise d'Urfé (* 1705 ; † November 13, 1775 ) was a French occultist and patroness of several famous adventurers.

Live and act

She was the daughter of Nicolas-Pierre Camus de Pontcarré (1667-1734), the first President of the Parliament of Rouen , Président du Parlement de Normandie . On September 21, 1724 she married the twenty-year-old Louis-Christophe de Larochefoucauld de Lascaris, Marquis d'Urfé et de Langeac, Count of Sommerive (1704–1734), who died as an officer ten years later on a campaign near Tortana of the leaves and left her as a very wealthy widow with three children.

The Marquise d'Urfé showed an intense interest in all forms of occultism and made the acquaintance of both the Count of Saint-Germain and Cagliostro , both adventurers with knowledge of the occult.

In later years she became the generous friend of Giacomo Casanova . After 1763, however, Casanova was replaced in their favor by the adventurer Giacomo Passano.

In the film Fellini's Casanova (1976) by Federico Fellini , she is portrayed by Cicely Browne .

literature

  • Giacomo Casanova: story of my life . Kiepenheuer Verlag, Leipzig and Weimar 1983–1988.
  • A. de Compigny des Bordes: Casanova et la marquise d'Urfé. Paris 1922.

Individual evidence

  1. Giacomo Casanova: Story of my life . Kiepenheuer Verlag, Leipzig and Weimar 1983–1988. Vol. 5, pp. 340-341
  2. Otto Krätz; Helga Merlin: Casanova. Science lover. Callwey, Munich (1995) ISBN 3-7667-1119-9 p. 70