Career
Her parents were François Louis Waldner de Freundstein, Baron and later Count de Waldner and Wilhelmine Auguste Berckheim de Ribeauvillé. They had a daughter, Marie-Philippine Frédérique Dorothée (1777-1827), who married in 1798 Count Louis Simon de Bernard de Montbrison. Their grandson edited and published the Mémoires in English in 1852 and in French in 1854.
The Baronness lived in and wrote about court society in her native Alsace, in Montbéliard, Stuttgart and (most importantly) in Paris and Versailles.
Her trips to the court of Louis XVI occurred in 1782, 1784, and 1786. The writer Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz fall in love with her 1776 and wrote several works inspired by this love.
She offers great insight into high society during the end of the ancien régime.