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| Adrien-Louise de Bonnieres Duke of Guines @Wikipedia |
(1735-1806)
French nobleman, military officer
French nobleman, military officer
court favourite & diplomat.
Favourite of Queen Marie-Antoinette.
Son of: Guy-Louis de Bonniere, Comte de Souatre & Adrienne-Louise-Isabelle de Melun.
Husband of: Caroline-Francoise-Philippine de Montmorency-Longny (1733-1810), mar 1753, daughter of Louis-Francois de Montmorency, Vicomte de Roulers & Marie Anne Thérèse de Rym de Belhem.
Husband of: Caroline-Francoise-Philippine de Montmorency-Longny (1733-1810), mar 1753, daughter of Louis-Francois de Montmorency, Vicomte de Roulers & Marie Anne Thérèse de Rym de Belhem.
Personal & family background.
" . . . De Guines had served in the French army during the Seven Years War, rising to the rank of Marshal. He then became French ambassador to Prussia, where he had negotiated with King Frederick the Great. Now thirty-eight, he was known as a clever persuader, a wit, and a lover of all the arts, including that of seduction. He was an excellent performer on the flute. Elizabeth wrote of him 'The Comte de Guisnes was the best flute-player I never heard, and his taste in music was exquisite.' When in Prussia he played duets with King Frederick and it was Guines who commissioned Mozart's concerto for the flute and harp. Even Mozart said the Comte was a very good player (though not a very good payer - he never gave Mozart more than half the promised fee.)." (Elizabeth Craven: Writer, Feminist and European: 42)
Lady Craven
Lover in 1773-?
British aristocrat, author & playwright
Personal & family background.
"Elizabeth, Lady Berkeley (1750-1828), was a granddaughter of Lady Louisa Lennox and a great-great-granddaughter of Charles II, a lineage that she felt secured her identification among the most elite of English subjects: 'a proud Plantagenet'. Married at seventeen to William, 6th Baron Craven, in her twenties and thirties Lady Craven attracted the attention of contemporaries, and the public, for her loveliness, her literary productions, and a series of romantic entanglements. . . ." (Spaces for Feeling: Emotions and Sociabilities in Britain, 1650-1850)
"It is at times difficult to imagine a more fascinating character. Elizabeth Berkeley was born on 17 December 1750, the youngest daughter of Augustus, 4th Earl of Berkeley. Seventeen years later she was married to William Craven, who would become Baron Craven in 1769. Monogamy was not their strong suit. They had six children and numerous affairs. What is interesting is that these infidelities were in no way discreet. In 1773, Lady Craven conducted a remarkably public affair with Adrien-Louise de Bonniers, duc de Guines. He was the French ambassador to London, and the affair was sensationalized in the Town and Country Magazine. George Romney, competing with Sir Joshua Reynolds for the most fashionable sitters, was fully aware of Lady Craven's notoriety and her beauty when he painted her portrait in 1778. It was also during this period that she developed literary relationships with Horace Walpole, Samuel Johnson, and James Boswell. In 1783, Baron Craven formally separated from his wife by settling 1,500 pounds per annum on her. She left England with her youngest son to reside near Versailles. Life Defoe's Roxana, her departure and her husband's subsequent actions against her meant that she was permanent;y alienated from her child." (Engaging the Ottoman Empire: Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815: 306)
Affair's effect on the spouse & family.
" . . . Our first glimpse of her is in connection with Adrien-Louis de Bonnieres, Duke de Guines, the French Ambassador to the court of St. James. Town and Country reports 'an amorous conflict' in May 1773: Lord craven had discovered the couple in a compromising situation at a masquerade ball. De Guines thus represents one likely candidate for the 'Lady Craveling' caricature lover. There were infidelities on both sides of the marriage, but the scandal of this and other flirtations attached most publicly to Lady Craven, and the couple had agreed on a separation by the early 1780s. In 1784, Lady Craven relocated to the Continent for an extended tour with an annual allowance of 1,500 pounds and her youngest son, Keppel. Her older six children were kept from her, but her husband gave her assurances that she could continue to exchange correspondence with her older daughters." (Spaces for Feeling)
" . . . The liaison between Lady Craven and the Comte de Guines was known to all the town, for, far from taking the usual precautions, the made no secret of it, and every one knew how intimate they were." (Maugras: 298)
Elizabeth, Lady Craven's other lovers were:
1. Henry Vernon
"Effectively in exile, Craven travelled for two years through France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and the Crimea, before returning to Europe via Turkey and Greece. Her latest lover, 'cousin' Henry Vernon (a second potential subject of the engraving) accompanied her. Craven remained a news item on and off the Continent, and for some she represented a spectacle to rival the European sights. Jeremy Bentham, in a letter from Florence (23 September 1785), describes 'Lady Craven and her friend Mr. Vernon' as among the most extraordinary curiosities and inanimate that I have seen or shall see.'. . . ." (Spaces for Feeling)
Daughter of Auguste-Gabriel de Franquetot, Comte de Coigny (1740-1817), Colonel of Dragoons 1763, Marechal-de-Camp 1780, Lieutenant-General 1811 & Anne-Joséphine-Michèle de Roissy
Wife of André Hercule Marie Louis de Rosset de Roscozel, Marquis de Fleury, Duc de Fleury, mar 1784, sep 1793
"Aimée de Coigny (12 October 1769 – 17 January 1820) was a French noblewoman who was known as a great beauty and was imprisoned during the French Revolution. André Chénier's elegy la Jeune Captive, published in 1795, was inspired by her ordeal. She married twice, and divorced both men. She had the relaxed sexual morals of the elite in France during that period." (Science Train)
"Aimée became a famous beauty. Madame de Genlis, an intimate friend, wrote of her in her memoirs, I saw again with great pleasure; at Isle-Adam, the young Comtesse de Coigny, formerly Mademoiselle de Roissy, with whom I had been close at the Couvent du Précieux-Sang. She had originality, wit and good feelings; we renewed our acquaintance; she told me that she had a passion for anatomy, a very extraordinary taste in a young woman of eighteen. Since I had been somewhat occupied with surgery and medicine, and knew how to bleed, Madame de Coigny was very fond of chatting with me. I promised to do an anatomy class, but not like her, on corpses ...'" (Science Train)
"Coigny was a famous beauty also known as the duchesse de Fleury. Her first husband was André-Hercule-Marie-Louis de Rosset de Roscozel de Perignan, marquis, duc de Fleury, whom she married in 1784 and divorced in May 1793. Her second marriage was to Claude-Philibert-Hippolyte de Mouret, comte de Montrond. She was divorced from him in 1802 and was known thereafter as Mme Aimee de Coigny (Byron's "Corbeau Blanc": The Life and Letters of Lady Melbourne: 423)
Her lovers were:
1) Andre Cheniers.
2) Armand-Louis de Gontaut. Duc de Lauzun (1747-1793).
" . . . She married very young, as was common at the time. She was 15 when she married the comte de Fleury, who was fourteen. He became a duke in 1788. He was subject to nervous tics that were very disagreeable, and the marriage was not happy. Aimee became the mistress of the Armand Louis de Gontaut Duke of Lauzun (1747–1793), a well-known libertine, if past his prime. . . ." (Science Train)
2) Armand-Louis de Gontaut. Duc de Lauzun (1747-1793).
" . . . She married very young, as was common at the time. She was 15 when she married the comte de Fleury, who was fourteen. He became a duke in 1788. He was subject to nervous tics that were very disagreeable, and the marriage was not happy. Aimee became the mistress of the Armand Louis de Gontaut Duke of Lauzun (1747–1793), a well-known libertine, if past his prime. . . ." (Science Train)
3) Bruno-Gabriel-Pail, Marquis de Boisgelin (1767-1827)
Master of the King's Wardrobe 1814, Peer of France 1815, Colonel of the National Guard of Paris 1820, First Chamberlain to the King 1820
4) Jacques-Joseph Garat.
4) Jacques-Joseph Garat.
French politician
" . . . At the age of 31 Aimée de Coigny, once more free, fell in love with the 37 year old Jacques Joseph Garat (known as Maillia-Garat). He was a member of the Tribunát and was known as an orator but was not known as a republican. They lived together for six years. . . ." (Science Train)
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| James Harris 1st Earl of Malmesbury @Wikipedia |
English diplomat
Lover in 1791
" . . . During a visit to Rome she became attached to Lord Malmesbury. . . Aimée's husband Fleury emigrated during the French Revolution (1789–99), leaving France in 1791. He joined Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé's army at Koblenz. Aimée went to London, where she rejoined Malmesbury. She gave birth to Malmesbury's child in London. In January 1793 she left London for Paris with Lord Malmesbury. He was soon arrested, but was released almost immediately and returned to London, leaving his mistress. She retired to her personal estate at Mareuil-en-Brie, near Paris. On 7 May 1793 she obtained a divorce against her husband. She then resumed the name of Coigny. . . ." (Science Train)
6) Casimir de Mouret, Comte de Montrond.
" . . . Casimir de Mouret, Comte de Montrond, was also imprisoned in 1794 in the Prison Saint-Lazare, where he met Aimée de Coigny. He obtained her freedom and his own for a payment of 100 louis. She was released on the day she was due to follow Chénier to the scaffold. They married after the Thermidorian Reaction of 27 July 1794 and left together for England. Their married life in London was not successful. . . The marriage with Montrond went from bad to worse from 1800 onward. The divorce due to incompatibility between Aimée de Coigny and her husband was pronounced on 6 Germinal year X (28 March 1802). Aimée again became known as Madame Aimée de Coigny. . . ." (Science Train)
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| Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand 1st Duke of Benevento the Prince of Diplomats |
(1754-1838)
Bishop of Autun
Comte de Talleyrand-Perigord.
"Perhaps the most interesting and influential member of Madame de Stael's salon was Talleyrand, then Bishop of Autun. Born in 1754, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord had forfeited his rights of primogeniture as a result of a fall in infancy which had left his feet permanently crippled, and had entered the church. Embittered and amoral, noted for his sarcastic wit, his exquisite tact and his languid inactivity, Talleyrand was as notorious for his love affairs as he was famous as a brilliant speaker.
List of Talleyrand's mistresses.
- Adelaide de Flahaut (Lover in 1783-1792)
- "Gouverneur Morris loved pleasure as much as he loved business---and he also loved the beautiful Countess de Flahaut. She was a young woman, the wife of an old husband, the daughter of a former mistress of Louis XV and herself the acknowledged mistress of Talleyrand. She lived in an apartment in the ancient palace of the Louvre which had come to her as the reward of her mother's frailty; and here she almost daily entertained her admirers." (Talleyrand)
- Aimee de Coigny, Duchess de Fleury (b/w 1797 & 1812-1818)
- Anne-Charlotte de Lorraine, Abbesse de Remiremont (Lover in 1780-1782)
- " . . . She did finally turn on Madame de Brionne, blocking her international campaign to make Talleyrand---the lover of Anne-Charlotte, of Madame de Brionne's daughter-in-law (the beautiful princesse de Vaudemont), and probably Madame de Brionne herself---a cardinal, by enlisting Mercy to put countepressure on the Pope through Austria's ambassador in Rome. Yet Marie-Antoinette did not turn on the house of Lorraine as a whole, but to the contrary, conspicuously continued to protect Madame de Brionne's two sons. At no poit did Lambesc become persona non grate at the court, as evidenced by the king's willingness to grant Lambesc's vehement petition for privileged seating . . ." (Marie Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen: 183)
- Anne-Charlotte Dorothee de Medem, Duchess of Kurland (1809-1812)
- Anne-Francoise Elisabeth Lange (1797)
- Anne-Louise de Goyon-Matignon
- Augustine-Francoise Eleonore Guesnon (1809)
- Bonne-Charlotte Renee Adelaide de Montmorency-Luxembourg (1788)
- "Adrien, Duke of LAVAL. Adrien de Montmorency, Duke of Laval, was born in 1768 of one of the numerous marriages between blood relations of the Montmorency family, formerly very powerful. He marries in 1788 his cousin Bonne-Charlotte de Montmorency-Luxembourg." (Talleyrand, The Prince of diplomats)
- Catherine-Jeanne Tavernier de Boullogne
- Catherine-Noele Worlee (1794-1802)
- See "Princess of Talleyrand" (Talleyrand, The Prince of diplomats)
- Charlotte-Louise-Aglae Perrette Bontemps
- Dorothea von Kurland, Duchess of Dino (1815)
- Elzelina van Aylde-Jongle (1801)
- Emilie-Jeanne-Marie-Antoinette Bigottini de La Valteline (1814)
- Germaine de Stael (1788)
- Guyonne-Elisabeth-Josephe de Montmorency-Laval (1776)
- Henriette-Amelie de Nehra (1786-1788)
- Isabelle Poniatowska (bef 1807)
- Juliette Bernard
- Louise-Auguste Elisabeth Colette de Montmorency (1784)
- Louise de Montmorency, Princesse de Vaudemont
- Marguerite Barrois (1746-1825)
- Louise-Julie Constance de Rohan (1734-1815)
- Marguerite-Josephine Weimer (1804)
- Marie-Antoinette Rosalie Pauline de Quelen d'Estueart de Caussade de La Vauguyon (1809). Marie-Antoinette-Rosalie Pauline, Duchess of BAUFFREMONT. Marie-Antoinette-Rosalie Pauline de Quelen de la Vauguyon was born in 1771. In 1787 she marries in Saint-Ildefonse (Spain) Alexandre-Emmanuel-Louis de Bauffremont, named the Prince, and later the Duke of Bauffremont (1773-1833). About 1808, she strikes up an intense friendship with the Prince of Bénévent, friendship that, as it is always the attitude with Talleyrand towards women, will last all her life long. She was called "Talleyrand's big goose because of her long neck and her unlimited admiration" for the Prince. Princess Hélène de Bauffremont (1774-1836) was her sister-in-law and the second of her sons, Théodore, marries in 1819 young Laurence de Montmorency, elder sister of the future Duchess of Valençay, Alix de Montmorency. Duchess of Bauffremont's husband dies of cholera in 1833 and she dies in 1847." (Talleyrand, The Prince of diplomats)
- Marie-Claudine Sylvie de Thiard de Bissy (1754-1812)
- Marie-Josephe Therese de Lorraine-Elbeuf (1784-1786)
- Marie-Therese Poniatowska (1806/07)
- Victoire Oeben (1797)
- Wilhelmina, Duchesse de Sagan (1814)
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| Adelaide de Flahaut |
" . . . Madame de Flahaut's other lover was Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, then a Catholic bishop. Her husband was a political cipher, but her clerical lover was razor-sharp, destined for great things, and Madame de Flahaut and Morris kibitzed his career from the sidelines. . . ." (George Washington on Leadership: 148) (Brookhiser: 148)
"From 1783 to 1792, Talleyrand’s mistress was the Countess Adelaïde de Flahaut. The couple had a child, born in 1785, whom they named Charles, after his natural father. Charles de Flahaut would later become the lover of Queen Hortense and the father of the Duke de Morny, the half-brother of Napoleon III." (Combaluzier)
2) Amy, Maria & Sophia Gauchier.
"In the vicinity of Count de Peregord's (sic) palace, resided in the Rue de Bacq, Madame Gauchier, a widow with five children, three of whom were daughters. Her husband, a Swiss by birth, had early entered the French service, and from his merit had risen from the ranks to be a captain and knight of the order of St. Louis. Wounded in Germany during the seven years war, he survived the peace of 1767, which concluded it, only two years. The scanty pension allowed his widow by government was not sufficient to support her family, she therefore became a mantua-maker, and brought up her daughters to the same trade. Their industry and regularity were the common topics of conversation, and the admiration of all their good neighbours until the spring of 1769, when, on a fatal day, the charms of the girls excited the attention and desire of the young debauche Talleyrand. Poor and artless, by splendid presents and brilliant offers their innocence was soon allured by the insidious snares of seduction. In less than six months Maria and Amy, the one aged eighteen, the other sixteen, were in a state of pregnancy; and were persuaded by their base seducers to take some drugs in order to cause miscarriages. Of what ingredients these drugs were composed is best known to Talleyrand, but so dreadful were their effects, they immediately deprived Amy of life and Maria of her reason; and the wretched mother accompanied, on the same day, one of her daughters to the grave, and the other to a mad house! So little did she suspect the real author of her misery, that she continued to receive, with distinction, the visits of the assassin; consulted him as a friend, a revered him as a benefactor. She had, however, soon occasion to repent of her simplicity, and to deplore her ignorance. Her third daughter, Sophia, on her fourteenth birth-day, during the carnival of 1770, eloped from her distressed parent. After many fruitless searches, the police was applied to; but, in such a manner had Talleyrand planned the retreat of his new victim, that, until mid-summer, the police spies could not find out her place of concealment. Had not the female accomplice, in whom he trusted, betrayed his secrets, no one could probably even have known (italicized phrase illegible in text). Among other virtuous persons, feeling for the sufferings, and interesting themselves in behalf of the unfortunate Madame Gauchier, the humane and generous Duke of Penthievre was the foremost; he offered a reward of 3000 livres (125 pounds) to any person who should discover the abode of the lost child. This sum was too strong a temptation for the woman in whose house, and under whose care the girl had resided in the Rue St. Antoin to resist; and poor Sophia Gauchier was taken in the arms of her seducer, being in a fair way to become a mother. In her room was a box containing pills which were intended, according to Sophia's confession, for the purpose of producing abortion. These, after being examined and compared with the drugs found in the corpse of the poisoned Amy, leave little doubt who was the real perpetrator of that crime; who, besides, from juvenile indiscretion, or depraved vanity, had boasted of his intrigues with, and gloried in the ruin of the two elder sisters, as well as in that of the youngest. At the recommendation, and under the protection of the Duke of Penthievre, Sophia was received in the convent of the Urselines (sic), in the Bois de Boulogne, near Paris; where, notwithstanding the tender attention and religious consolation of the abbess, she shortly expired, in consequence of a premature delivery; her death was, in two days, followed by that of her mother, from a broken heart, and the same tomb contained them both. Talleyrand had hardly finished the first year of his fourth lustrum, when these atrocious deeds were committed, the perpetration of which afforded a fatal presage of the cool and deliberate crimes, since committed by the patricide and apostate bishop, by the regicide and revolutionary minister. When the Count de Peregord was informed of his nephew's consummate infamy, a family council was convoked; some wished to have the young monster sent away, and exiled to the colonies for life, whilst others, not to expose the honour of their name by new atrocities in new climates, proposed a petition to the king for a Lettre-de-Cachet. This was attained, and in October, 1770, Talleyrand was seized at a gambling house in the Palais Royal, and confined in the Bastille, under the name of Abbe Boiteux. From this state prison he was, in the following December, removed to the castle of Vincennes, where he continued in solitary confinement for twelve months. . . ." (Memoirs of C.M. Talleyrand de Perigord, Vol 1: 8)
"From 1783 to 1792, Talleyrand’s mistress was the Countess Adelaïde de Flahaut. The couple had a child, born in 1785, whom they named Charles, after his natural father. Charles de Flahaut would later become the lover of Queen Hortense and the father of the Duke de Morny, the half-brother of Napoleon III." (Combaluzier)
2) Amy, Maria & Sophia Gauchier.
"In the vicinity of Count de Peregord's (sic) palace, resided in the Rue de Bacq, Madame Gauchier, a widow with five children, three of whom were daughters. Her husband, a Swiss by birth, had early entered the French service, and from his merit had risen from the ranks to be a captain and knight of the order of St. Louis. Wounded in Germany during the seven years war, he survived the peace of 1767, which concluded it, only two years. The scanty pension allowed his widow by government was not sufficient to support her family, she therefore became a mantua-maker, and brought up her daughters to the same trade. Their industry and regularity were the common topics of conversation, and the admiration of all their good neighbours until the spring of 1769, when, on a fatal day, the charms of the girls excited the attention and desire of the young debauche Talleyrand. Poor and artless, by splendid presents and brilliant offers their innocence was soon allured by the insidious snares of seduction. In less than six months Maria and Amy, the one aged eighteen, the other sixteen, were in a state of pregnancy; and were persuaded by their base seducers to take some drugs in order to cause miscarriages. Of what ingredients these drugs were composed is best known to Talleyrand, but so dreadful were their effects, they immediately deprived Amy of life and Maria of her reason; and the wretched mother accompanied, on the same day, one of her daughters to the grave, and the other to a mad house! So little did she suspect the real author of her misery, that she continued to receive, with distinction, the visits of the assassin; consulted him as a friend, a revered him as a benefactor. She had, however, soon occasion to repent of her simplicity, and to deplore her ignorance. Her third daughter, Sophia, on her fourteenth birth-day, during the carnival of 1770, eloped from her distressed parent. After many fruitless searches, the police was applied to; but, in such a manner had Talleyrand planned the retreat of his new victim, that, until mid-summer, the police spies could not find out her place of concealment. Had not the female accomplice, in whom he trusted, betrayed his secrets, no one could probably even have known (italicized phrase illegible in text). Among other virtuous persons, feeling for the sufferings, and interesting themselves in behalf of the unfortunate Madame Gauchier, the humane and generous Duke of Penthievre was the foremost; he offered a reward of 3000 livres (125 pounds) to any person who should discover the abode of the lost child. This sum was too strong a temptation for the woman in whose house, and under whose care the girl had resided in the Rue St. Antoin to resist; and poor Sophia Gauchier was taken in the arms of her seducer, being in a fair way to become a mother. In her room was a box containing pills which were intended, according to Sophia's confession, for the purpose of producing abortion. These, after being examined and compared with the drugs found in the corpse of the poisoned Amy, leave little doubt who was the real perpetrator of that crime; who, besides, from juvenile indiscretion, or depraved vanity, had boasted of his intrigues with, and gloried in the ruin of the two elder sisters, as well as in that of the youngest. At the recommendation, and under the protection of the Duke of Penthievre, Sophia was received in the convent of the Urselines (sic), in the Bois de Boulogne, near Paris; where, notwithstanding the tender attention and religious consolation of the abbess, she shortly expired, in consequence of a premature delivery; her death was, in two days, followed by that of her mother, from a broken heart, and the same tomb contained them both. Talleyrand had hardly finished the first year of his fourth lustrum, when these atrocious deeds were committed, the perpetration of which afforded a fatal presage of the cool and deliberate crimes, since committed by the patricide and apostate bishop, by the regicide and revolutionary minister. When the Count de Peregord was informed of his nephew's consummate infamy, a family council was convoked; some wished to have the young monster sent away, and exiled to the colonies for life, whilst others, not to expose the honour of their name by new atrocities in new climates, proposed a petition to the king for a Lettre-de-Cachet. This was attained, and in October, 1770, Talleyrand was seized at a gambling house in the Palais Royal, and confined in the Bastille, under the name of Abbe Boiteux. From this state prison he was, in the following December, removed to the castle of Vincennes, where he continued in solitary confinement for twelve months. . . ." (Memoirs of C.M. Talleyrand de Perigord, Vol 1: 8)
Vicomtesse de Laval
Lover in 1775-1791.
French courtier
Wife of: Mathieu-Paul-Louis de Montmorency, Vicomte de Laval
" . . . An admired beauty she became involved in various romantic liaisons. She survived the horrors of the revolution, and became a member of the old court at the Faubourg St. Germain in Paris, where, then aged over fifty, she became the mistress of the Comte de Narbonne, and established a brilliant salon, which was frequented by the Prince de Talleyrand. After the Bourbon restoration (1814), Madame de Laval attended the courts of Louis XVII and Charles X. Madame de Laval was mentioned in letters of the British antiquarian Sir Horace Walpole." (A Bit of History)
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| Catherine-Noele Worlee |
French courtesan & aristocrat.
Lover in 1794-1802.
Lover in 1794-1802.
Daughter of: Jean-Pierre Verlee (d.1786)
Husband of:
1. Georges-Francois Grand, British civil servant, mar 1777.
2. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, mar 1802, sep 1816.
Husband of:
1. Georges-Francois Grand, British civil servant, mar 1777.
2. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, mar 1802, sep 1816.
" . . . Although Talleyrand exhibited detached, unprejudiced discernment in selecting both his wines and his governments, he inexplicably succumbed to Madame Grand, nee Catherine Noelle Worlee (1762-1835). She was a blond, blue-eyed stunner immortalized on canvas by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and Gerard, but in contrast to the highly cultivated women with whom the bishop habitually cavorted, Madame Grand was as stupid as Talleyrand was witty. At one legendary dinner she purportedly mistook the guest of honor, Sir George Robinson, for Robinson Crusoe and politically inquired after the health of Friday." (Young. Apples of Gold in Settings of Silver: Stories of Dinner as a Work of Art: 200)
Her other lovers were.
1. Sir Philip Francis
" . . . In Vienna, the Prince de Talleyrand was accompanied by Dorothée de Courlande, wife of his nephew, Edmond de Périgord. Dorothée would remain with the Prince until his death as his mistress and keeper of his household. Later, Dorothée would give birth to a daughter named Pauline, whom Talleyrand treated like his own. There are those who believe he was her father, but there is no real proof." (Combaluzier, 1997) |
| Dorothea von Medem Duchess of Courland |
5) Dorothea von Medem, Herzogin von Kurland (1761-1821)
Daughter of: Friedrich von Medem & Louise Charlotte von Manteuffel.
" . . . In Vienna, the Prince de Talleyrand was accompanied by Dorothée de Courlande, wife of his nephew, Edmond de Périgord. Dorothée would remain with the Prince until his death as his mistress and keeper of his household. Later, Dorothée would give birth to a daughter named Pauline, whom Talleyrand treated like his own. There are those who believe he was her father, but there is no real proof." (Combaluzier, 1997)
6) Doudou.
Talleyrand's black mistress in Philadelphia: " . . . Talleyrand's most grievous insult to the manners, customs, and polite conventions, which prevailed at that time, was his habit of walking the streets of Philadelphia with a Nagro woman on his arm." (Talleyrand in Philadelphia, 1794-1796: 291)
" . . . The anecdotes of his exile in America are well told---we see the ex-bishop trudging the forests to sell off chunks of real estate and parading openly with his black mistress, Doudou, to the disgust of the Quakers of Philadelphia. . . ." (Chicago Tribune)
" . . . In England he made friends with other Frenchmen who had supported the revolution and fled there. But then England turned against Talleyrand as France executed their king and he was expelled as a spy. He moved to the US, and shocked the nation by taking a Caribbean mistress." (European History)
" . . . The anecdotes of his exile in America are well told---we see the ex-bishop trudging the forests to sell off chunks of real estate and parading openly with his black mistress, Doudou, to the disgust of the Quakers of Philadelphia. . . ." (Chicago Tribune)
" . . . In England he made friends with other Frenchmen who had supported the revolution and fled there. But then England turned against Talleyrand as France executed their king and he was expelled as a spy. He moved to the US, and shocked the nation by taking a Caribbean mistress." (European History)
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| Germaine de Stael Madame de Stael |
7) Germaine Necker, Baronne de Stael-Holstein.
" . . . Talleyrand was probably Madame de Stael's first lover; although he was the only one of the men she had loved with whom she did not maintain a lifelong friendship. . . ." (Madame de Stael)
" . . . Her first lover, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, then the powerful bishop of Autun, was to become the foremost diplomat of Europe under the monarchy, the Revolution, the Empire, and the Restoration. . . ." (Folkenflik: 7)
". . . Before seeing her beloved [Montmorency] in England again, another friend awaited her. Perhaps an old lover since about 1788, and said to have been introduced to her by Narbonne, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, ex-Archbishop d'Autun and future Prince of Benavente (1754-1838), 'the best of men,' as she then called him, ceased to be in her good graces some time around 1800, because he turned away from her to enter the service of Bonaparte, despite everything he owed her, i.e. his return from exile in America, a large financial loan and the launching of a career. At first seduced by his conversation, his subtle charm and his virile intelligence, she later accused him of being over-ambitious, excessively egotistic and having the pliability which Napoleon more or less directly imposed on those in his service. . . . " (Madame de Stael: 43)
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8) Juliette Bernard (1777-1849)
French society leader.
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| Louise d'Esparbes de Lussan Comtesse de Polastron |
9) Louise d'Esparbes de Lussan, Comtesse de Polastron (1764-1804)
Wife of: Joseph-Marie de Lorraine, Prince de Vaudemont, mar 1778
[Bio2:talleyrand.org]
"She emigrates in 1791, settles down in Altona, near Hamburg... It is not excluded that, on her way back from exile in America, via Hamburg, Talleyrand meets her. Under the Consulate and the Empire Madame de Vaudemont is often seen in the salons, especially the one on rue de Bac and she has her own in Suresnes. The meetings with the Prince of Benevente are more and more frequent, each time more familiar and more confident." (talleyrand.org)
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Victoire Oeben |
10) Victoire Oeben (1758-1814)
Daughter of: Jean-Francois Oeben & Francoise-Marguerite Vandercruse
Wife of: Charles Delacroix (1741-1805), mar 1778
" . . . According to an insistent rumor, which circulated in Parisian salons and which was taken up by many biographers of the painter, Victoire would have shared her favors between her husband and Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord (1754-1838): the latter had precisely succeeded Charles Delacroix as Minister of External Relations. . . ." (Geneanet)
"Eugene Delacroix. French painter, draughtsman, & lithographer. " . . . He was the son of a diplomat, Charles Delacroix, who at the time of his son's birth was ambassador in The Hague, but it has been suggested that his natual father was the great statesman Talleyrand, a friend of the family. His mother, Victoire Oeben, was the daughter of Jean-Francois Oeben, one of the most distinguished furniture makers of his day." (Chilvers. The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists)
Her other lover was:
Jean-Baptiste Cervoni.
Lover in 1805?-1809
" . . . After her husband's death in 1805, she promptly put Eugene out to board at the Lycee de Bordeaux, and after installing him in the Louis-le-Grand in Paris, she returned to Marseilles, where the family lived from 1800-1803 and where her intimate acquaintance with General Cervoni presumably originated. There, according to Huyghe, she lived with the genral until his death in 1809 and then raised his daughter, Irene, as her own child. . . ." (Gedo. Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art, Vol 2: 6)
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| Charles-Paris d'Orleans Duke of Longueville |
(1649-1672)
1664-1672
Duc d'Estouteville 1664
Sovereign Prince of Neuchatel, & Valangin
Comte de Saint-Paul
Comte de Dunois
Comte de Tancarville.
Son of: Francois VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld & Anne-Genevieve de Bourbon-Conde (but recognized by her husband Henri II d'Orleans, Duc de Longueville).
His lovers were:
1) Madeleine d'Angennes, Dame de La Loupe (1629-1714)
Natural offspring:
Son of: Francois VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld & Anne-Genevieve de Bourbon-Conde (but recognized by her husband Henri II d'Orleans, Duc de Longueville).
His lovers were:
1) Madeleine d'Angennes, Dame de La Loupe (1629-1714)
Natural offspring:
a. Charles-Louis d'Orleans-Longueville (1670-1688)
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