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| | MARIE JOSEPHINE LOUISE, DUCHESSE DE GONTAUT - LoveToKnow Article on MARIE JOSEPHINE LOUISE, DUCHESSE DE GONTAUT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | GONTAUT, MARIE JOSEPHINE LOUISE, DUCHESSE DE (1773-1857), was born in Paris on the 3rd of August 1773, daughter of Augustin Francois, comte de Montaut-Navailles, who had been governor of Louis XVI. |
 | | Madame de Gontaut became lady-in-waiting to Caroline, duchess of Berry, and, on the birth of the princess Louise (Mile dArtois, afterwards duchess of Parma), governess to the children of France. |
 | | She herself wrote in her old age some naive memoirs, which throw an odd light on the pretensions of the governess of the children of France. |
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