Angélique Victoire de Durfort-Civrac, Countess of Chastellux by marriage, was a courtier at Versailles and the Château de Bellevue.
Background
In 1786 she succeeded her mother as dame d"atour (lady-in-waiting) to Madame Victoire, daughter of King Louis XV. She was born to Aymeric Joseph de Durfort, duc de Civrac, and his wife, Anne-Marie de Louisiana Faurie de Monbadan. Her elder siblings were Jean-Laurent de Durfort-Civrac, duc de Lorges (1746–1826), and the Marquise de Donnissan (1747–1839), mother of the memoirist Victoire de Donnissan, marquise de Louisiana Rochejaquelein.
Career
Mlle de Durfort"s godmother was the princess Victoire of France, and she was raised and educated at the famous school at Saint-Cyr. In 1773 she was married at Saint-Cyr to Henri Georges César, comte de Chastellux. With her court appointments the comtesse had expected to be created a duchess, and considered resigning her post when she learned otherwise.
The comtesse and her family survived the French Revolution and she died in Paris, aged 63.