Mélanie Renouard de Bussière

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Mélanie Renouard de Bussière, married Comtesse de Pourtalès

Louise Sophie Mélanie Renouard de Bussière , by marriage Comtesse de Pourtalès (born March 26, 1836 in Strasbourg , † May 5 in Robertsau (Pourtalès Castle) or May 6, 1914 in Paris ), led a literary salon in Paris during the Second Empire . Through her daughter Agnes, she is a great, great, great grandmother of Stephanie zu Guttenberg (* 1976).

Life

Youth and wedding

Mélanie Renouard de Bussière came from a family of Alsatian bankers , the old noble family of the Barons Renouard de Bussière . Her parents were Alfred Renouard de Bussière (* 1804, † 1887) and Sophie Mélanie de Coehoorn from the family of Menno van Coehoorn , daughter of a Général d'Empire , who brought the family estate in Strasbourg-Robertsau into the marriage. Because of this family background, Mélanie moved in the higher society of the Second Empire and the beginnings of the Third Republic. She was married since 1857 to the banker Count Edmond de Pourtalès (* 1828; † 1895), son of James Alexander de Pourtalès-Gorgier (* 1776; † 1855), a recognized collector, coming from a family of high finance from Neuchâtel, Switzerland .

At the French court

She became Emperor Napoleon III through the Austrian ambassador in Paris, Prince Richard von Metternich . and presented to Empress Eugenie and thus introduced to the court .

Contemporaries like Boniface de Castellane and André de Fouquières raved about their elegance, their popularity at court and the number of their admirers. After the death of their father-in-law, Count James Alexander de Pourtalès, the couple inherited their Renaissance-style villa in Paris at 7 rue Tronchet in 1855. In 1865 his father-in-law's renowned collections were auctioned off.

At Pourtalès Castle

Château de Pourtalès in Alsace

After the death of her father, Baron Alfred Renouard de Bussiere , the Countess inherited the family fortune with the estate in Robertsau near Strasbourg . From 1887 to 1902 she was the sole owner of the castle there from the architect Breffendille in the Louis XV style . remodel to Pourtalès Castle and create large outbuildings. In 1907 the Strasbourg architects Gustave Krafft and Jules Berninger built a tower to accommodate their library.

The English Garden was the site of several performances including Les Folies amoureuses by Jean-François Regnard in 1911. Visitors to the palace included King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Kaiser Wilhelm II , King Leopold II of Belgium and Queen Marie Henriette , the Prince of Wales Albert Eduard (later King Edward VII), Prince Napoléon , Prince Klemens von Metternich , Franz Liszt , Albert Schweitzer and Léon Bakst .

The Comtesse de Pourtalès died in 1914 and was buried in the St. Robertsau cemetery (Strasbourg).

progeny

Daughter Agnes (1870–1930), married Marquise Loÿs de Chandieu

The Countess of Pourtalès had five children:

  • Jacques (1858–1919), married to Marie Conquère de Monbrison
  • Paul (1859–1933), President of the Evangelical League of France, captain of the cavalry, married to Françoise Cottier
  • Hubert (1863–1949), cavalry officer , married to Marguerite Malvine Henriette de Schickler
  • Mélanie Elisabeth (* 1867), married Baroness Berckheim (Christian Baron de Berckheim)
  • Agnes (1870-1930), married Marquise Loÿs de Chandieu (Henri Marquis Loÿs de Chandieu), she inherited the castle in Robertsau after the death of her mother and is a great-great-grandmother of Stephanie zu Guttenberg .

literature

  • Robert Grossmann: Comtesse de Pourtalès. Une cour française dans l'Alsace impériale 1836 - 1870 - 1914. (with a foreword by Philippe Séguin ) La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 1995, ISBN 2-7165-0369-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Heirs of Europe: Guttenberg (No. 111)
  2. ↑ World Roots.com: Ancestors of Countess Stephanie von Bismarck-Schoenhausen ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (No. 47; 94; 95) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / worldroots.com
personal data
SURNAME Bussière, Mélanie Renouard de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bussière, Louise Sophie Mélanie Renouard de (full name); Pourtalès, Mélanie Comtesse de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alsatian-French nobles, Salonnière in Paris during the Second Empire
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1914 or May 6, 1914
Place of death uncertain: Robertsau (Pourtalès Castle) or Paris