Background
She was the daughter of senator and financier François Scholastique, Count of Guéhéneuc.
She was the daughter of senator and financier François Scholastique, Count of Guéhéneuc.
She was the sister of general Charles Louis Joseph Olivier, Count of Guéhéneuc. After the death of Jean Lannes, the eldest son Napoléon succeeded in his titles and three others who used the courtesy title of baron. The Duchess of Montebello enjoyed a great deal of respect in the contemporary Parisian high society as a role model of aristocratic femininity.
She was appointed dame d"honneur (Mistress of the Robes) to Empress Marie Louise by Napoleon I, a position she kept from 1810 until the fall of Napoleon in 1814.