Background
Although the family came from Touraine, she was born in Paris in her family's Hotel Particulier.
Although the family came from Touraine, she was born in Paris in her family's Hotel Particulier.
She has left highly interesting memoirs in which her legitimist convictions are shown not to affect the sharpness of her political analysis. The family lived in Switzerland and Germany during the French Revolution. They returned to France during the French Directoire.
Blanche-Joséphine Le Bascle d'Argenteuil's second marriage, on 2 January 1811, was to Charles de Maillé de La Tour-Landry (1770–1837), 2nd duke of Maillé. They had two children:
Jacquelin (1815–1874), 3rd duke of Maillé, who married Jeanne d'Osmond ;
Armand (1816–1903), who married Jeanne Lebrun de Plaisance. She served as Dame d'honneur to the Duchess of Berry during the Bourbon Restoration.
She didn't like her stay at court because she thought the Duchess' entertainment was to frivolous. With the accession of Louis Philippe I she fell out of favour at court. From 1832 until her death, she presided over a Salon, a weekly gathering in her house, for writers, artists and politicians.