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Marie Josephine Louise Gontaut was born on the 3rd of August 1773 in Paris, daughter of Augustin Franfois, comte de Montaut-Navailles, who had been governor of Louis XVI.
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Memoirs of the Duchesse De Gontaut: Gouvernante to the Children of France During the Restoration, 1773-1836 (V.2 ) (1894)
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Marie Gontaut
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Marie Josephine Louise, Duchesse de Gontaut
Career
Joséphine with her mother emigrated to Coblenz in 1792, thence they went to Rotterdam, and finally to England, where Joséphine married the marquis. They returned to France at the Restoration, and resumed their place at court. Madame de Gontaut became lady-in-waiting to Caroline, duchess of Berry, and, on the birth of the princess Louise (Mile d'Artois, afterwards duchess of Parma), governess to the children of France. Next year the birth of Henry, duke of Bordeaux (afterwards known as the comte de Chambord), added to her charge the heir of the Bourbons. She remained faithful to his cause all her life. Her husband died in 1822, and in 1827 she was created duchesse de Gontaut. She followed the exiled royal family in 1830 to Holyrood Palace, and then to Prague, but in 1834, owing to differences with Pierre Louis, due de Blacas, who thought her comparatively liberal views dangerous for the prince and princess, she received a brusque conge from Charles X.
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Memoirs of the Duchesse de Gontaut, gouvernante to the children of France during the restoration, 1773-1836 (v. 2)
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Memoirs of the Duchesse De Gontaut: Gouvernante to the Children of France During the Restoration, 1773-1836 (V.2 ) (1894)
(Originally published in 1894. This volume from the Cornel...)
- Memoirs of the Duchesse de Gontaut, gouvernante to the children of France during the restoration, 1773-1836 (Volume 2)
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Memoirs of the Duchesse de Gontaut, gouvernante to the children of France during the restoration, 1773-1836 (v. 2)
Connections
She was married to the marquis Charles Michel de Gontaut-Saint-Blacard. Her twin daughters were Josephine (1796 - 1844) and Charlotte (1796- 1818).
