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  World War 1 and 2 - Louise-Elisabeth, Marquise de Tourzel
She was married in 1766, at the age of seventeen, to the Marquis de Tourzel.
Yolande, duchesse de Polignac, the queen's favourite companion and governess to the royal children, was forced to emigrate to Switzerland.
Tourzel was devastated by their deaths, and she was equally shocked to hear of the death of little Louis-Charles in 1795.
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  Louise-Elisabeth, Marquise de Tourzel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was married in 1766, at the age of seventeen, to the Marquis de Tourzel.
Yolande, duchesse de Polignac, the queen's favourite companion and governess to the royal children, was forced to emigrate to Switzerland.
Tourzel was devastated by their deaths, and she was equally shocked to hear of the death of little Louis-Charles in 1795.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louise-Elisabeth,_Marquise_de_Tourzel   (576 words)

  
 Marie Antoinette - LoveToKnow 1911
Thus for the benefit of Madame de Lamballe the queen revived the superfluous and expensive office of superintendent of her household, which led constant disagreements and jealousies among her ladies and offended many important families.
Thus she was often led to interfere for frivolous reasons in public affairs, sometimes with serious results, as in the case of the trial of the comte de Guines (1776), when her interference was responsible for the fall of Turgot.
She had already been separated from her son, the sight of whose ill-treatment added terribly to her sufferings; she was now parted from her daughter and Madame Elizabeth, and removed on the 1st of August 1793 to the Conciergerie.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Marie_Antoinette   (2449 words)

  
 Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Louise-Elisabeth, Marquise de Tourzel"
Louise-Félicité-Joséphine de Croŷ d'Havré, Marquise (later duchesse) de Tourzel (1749 - 1832) was a French noblewoman and courtier.
Marie Antoinette appointed Louise-Félicité-Elisabeth de Tourzel to the vacant post of Royal Governess, with particular care for the Dauphin, Louis-Charles.
The character of the Marquise de Tourzel appeared in the 1955 French film Marie Antoinette.
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 Louise-Elisabeth, Marquise de Tourzel at AllExperts
She was married in 1766, at the age of seventeen, to the Marquis de Tourzel.
Yolande, duchesse de Polignac, the queen's favourite companion and governess to the royal children, was forced to emigrate to Switzerland.
Tourzel was devastated by their deaths, and she was equally shocked to hear of the death of little Louis-Charles in 1795.
en.allexperts.com /e/l/lo/louise-elisabeth,_marquise_de_tourzel.htm   (621 words)

  
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Thus for the benefit of Madame de Lamballe the queen revived the superfluous and expensive office of superintendent of her household, which led to constant disagreements and jealousies among herladies and offended many important families.
Later, on the recommendation of Mercy and Vermond, she supported the nomination of Lomenie de Brienne in 1787, an appointment which, though widely approved at the time, was laid to the queen's blame when it ended in failure.
Some, such as those of Madame Campan, Weber, Cl6ry, Mme de Tourzel, are prejudiced in her favour ; others, such as those of Besenval, Lauzun, Soulavie, are equally prejudiced against her.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=43272&locale=en   (2378 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
The Duchesse de Polignac, the queen's favourite companion and the governess to the royal children, was forced to emigrate to Switzerland.
From this intimate position, the Marquise de Tourzel was able to watch the disintegration of the Ancien Régime.
Tourzel's loyalty was strong, and she refused to abandon the royal children as political strife in the nation dramatically increased.
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 Journal of the Tower of the Temple, Chapter I.
de Tourzel was obliged, in order that the young prince might not go unattended, to leave her daughter, seventeen years of age, in the Tuileries among the soldiers.
The Marquise de Tourzel was living on one of her estates.
I also learned that the Princesse de Tarente and the Marquise de la Roche-Aymon, who were at the Tuileries on the 10th of August, had escaped the massacre.
digital.library.upenn.edu /women/wormeley/princess/princess-2-I.html   (7342 words)

  
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The marquis de La Fayette was a patrician, possessor of an immense fortune, and allied, through his wife, daughter of the Duc d'Ayen, with the greatest families of the court.
de Choiseul was to desire his servants to be at Varennes on the 18th with his own horses, which would draw the king's carriage; the spot where the horses were placed was to be clearly explained to the king, in order that they might be changed without any loss of time.
However, the Marquis de Bouillé remedied all these evils as far as was in his power; sent modified orders to the commanders of the detachments, and advanced in person the 20th to Stenay, which was garrisoned by the Royal Allemand regiment, on whose fidelity he could rely.
www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/8/0/9/18094/18094-8.txt   (17722 words)

  
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I was by when the Duc de Penthievre told him, in the presence of his daughter, that he might look upon this accident as prophetic of the fate of his own head, as well as the ruin of his family, if he persisted.
As it was well known that M. de St. Priest had pointed out Rambouillet as a fit asylum for the mob, she fancied that an understanding on the part of her suite that they were to halt there, and prepare for her reception, would protect her project of proceeding much farther.
The Duke was accompanied to his vice- royalty by his daughter-in-law, the Princesse de Lamballe, who, by her extremely judicious management of the female part of the province, did more for the restoration of order than could have been achieved by armies.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/3/8/8/3881/old/cm44b10.txt   (17170 words)

  
 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette - Chapter VIII. (by Campan)
The Princesse de Tarente had fortunately opened the door of the apartments; otherwise, the dreadful band seeing several women collected in the Queen’s salon would have fancied she was among us, and would have immediately massacred us had we resisted them.
Madame de la Roche-Aymon and her daughter, Mademoiselle Pauline de Tourzel, Madame de Ginestoux, lady to the Princesse de Lamballe, the other women of the Queen, and the old Comte d’Affry, were led off together to the Abbaye.
She spoke of the Princesse de Tarente, whom she greatly loved and valued, of Madame de la Roche-Aymon and her daughter, of the other persons whom she had left at the palace, and of the Duchesse de Luynes, who was to have passed the night at the Tuileries.
www.authorama.com /memoirs-of-marie-antoinette-b-8.html   (6552 words)

  
 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette (B) - by Campan [Authorama]
She was disguised as a femme de chambre, and got up in front of the Berlin; she requested M. Campan to remember her frequently to the Queen, and then quitted for ever that palace, that favour, and that influence which had raised her up such cruel enemies.
M. de Gouvion, major-general of the National Guard, passed almost every day with her; and it is to be presumed that she had long worked for the party in opposition to the Court.
de Gouvion and M. de La Fayette would, of course, be apprised of this circumstance, and well-informed persons have assured me that on the very night of the Queen’s departure this wretched woman had a spy with her, who saw the royal family set off.
www.authorama.com /book/memoirs-of-marie-antoinette-b.html   (16981 words)

  
 Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de ...
He was aware it would be impossible for Her Highness to escape from appearing before the tribunal.
The Princesse de Tarente, the Marquise de Tourzel, her daughter, and others, were in safety.
But when, true to his promise, he went to the Princesse de Lamballe, she would not be prevailed upon to quit her cell.
www.bookrags.com /ebooks/3882/30.html   (563 words)

  
 Literature on the Age of Napoleon: Female Napoleonic Memoirs
Mémoires historiques de S.A.R. Madame, duchesse de Berry depuis sa naissance jusqu'à ce jour, publiés par Alfred Nettement (Paris, 1837) 3 vols.
Adélaïde de Kerjean, marquise de Falaiseau, d'après des lettres inédites et des souvenirs de famile par le vicomte de Broc (Paris, 1893) 344p.
Oudinot, Eugénie de Coucy, duchesse de Reggio (1791-1868)
www.napoleonic-literature.com /AgeOfNapoleon/Memoirs/FemaleMemoirs.html   (4810 words)

  
 Armory of the French hereditary peerage (1814-30)
Gotha: écartelé, au 1 de Bauffremont, au 2 de gueules à l'aigle d'or armée d'azur (Vienne) chargée d'un écusson de sable à trois têtes de léopard (Listenois), au 3 d'azur à dix boules d'argent 4, 3, 2 et 1 (Villelune), au 4 d'azur au chevron d'or (Gorrevod).
de gueules à trois bourdons de pèlerins d'argent
d'or à l'écusson de gueules, chargé de trois têtes de léopard d'or
www.heraldica.org /topics/france/peerage19l.htm   (13275 words)

  
 All Those Who Suffered
One, Louise-Elisabeth, Marquise de Tourzel, was the Dauphin’s pious governess; and the other, her fictitious cousin, Désirée, Vicomtesse de Pajou.
Rosalie is from the lower-orders, but yet her passion for The Cause is just a fierce as the Marquise de Tourzel’s.
However, after meeting with the Marquise de Tourzel, the Princess Royal visits Louis, whereupon she is convinced of his identity.
www.angelfire.com /in3/theodore/opinion/articles/russell.html   (1582 words)

  
 Vigée Le Brun Master Painting List
Upon being widowed, she remarried in 1778, at the age of 19, to le baron Pierre Paul de Kolly, fermier général, son of a banker of the court, exécuteur testamentaire de samuel Bernard, the richest man of France.
At the time his title was prince de Guéméné, but as VLB didn’t record her list until decades later, she might have chosen to record him by the title prince de Rohan, which he inherited in 1788.
She was dame de compagnie of Madame Victoire, and died in prison under the Terror.
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 The secret of Madame Royale
She was born in 1778 as an illegitimate child of Louis XVI and the chamber wife Philippine de Lambriquet and was adopted by the queen Marie Antoinette after the death of her physical mother (see the
For the protagonists of the theory of replacement seems to be certain, that she got under the protection of the Dutch diplomat Leonardus Cornelius van der Valck in June 1799.
Later, the child was adopted by the former doctor of Marie Antoinette "Claude Joseph Thiolier" and his wife "Elisabeth Relly" and grew up at the court of Louis XVIII in Mitau.
www.madame-royale.de /en/secret.htm   (2826 words)

  
 MARIE ANTOINETTE - Online Information article about MARIE ANTOINETTE
Vogt d'Hunolstein (Correspondance inedite de Marie Antoinette, (3rd ed., Paris, 1864), and F.
Lettres inedites de Marie Antoinette et de Marie-Clotilde, reine de Sardaigne (1877).
Weber, Cl6ry, Mme de Tourzel, are prejudiced in her favour ; others, such as those of Besenval, Lauzun, Soulavie, are equally prejudiced against her.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /MAL_MAR/MARIE_ANTOINETTE.html   (4216 words)

  
 Marie Antoinette — Volume 05 eBook
She was selected by the Queen as being the mother of a family and a woman of irreproachable conduct, who had superintended the education of her own daughters with the greatest success.
The King went to Paris on the 17th of July, accompanied by the Marechal de Beauvau, the Duc de Villeroi, and the Duc de Villequier; he also took the Comte d’Estaing, and the Marquis de Nesle, who were then very popular, in his carriage.
At length, at six in the evening, M. de Lastours, the King’s first page, arrived; he was not half an hour in coming from the Barriere de la Conference to Versailles.
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 John Hinsdale Scheide Collection of Three Centuries of French History
Son of Henri IV and the Marquise de Verneuil.
Toulouse (Lous Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de, 1678-1737).
Autograph letter to her daughter, Madame de Grignan, with postscript by Emmanuel de Coulanges, initialed.
libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/scheide-french.html   (766 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Duchesse de Tourzel": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The children's governess, the Duchesse de Tourzel, crept out with her two charges to find Fersen waiting for them, whip in hand,...
It was none other than his former governess: the Duchesse de Tourzel.
She settled on the virtuous Duchesse de Tourzel and wrote her a long epistle concerning the education of the new Dauphin, her "beloved darling": "My son is four...
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 Audacity of Ideas - Author's Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It was inspired by the mystery of Louis XVII, the son of Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI, who was presumed to have died in revolutionary captivity in 1795.
After the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1815, a parade of pretenders had appeared masquerading as the “lost dauphin.” Two of the characters from The Audacity of Ideas — Charles, Comte d’Artois (then reigning as Charles X) and Louise-Félicité, Marquise de Tourzel — were central characters in All Those Who Suffered.
The old belief that it was a stark inevitability has been largely replaced by an appreciation that, to varying degrees, it could have been prevented or taken a very different course.
users.ox.ac.uk /~exet1720/authorsnotes.htm   (806 words)

  
 DELANO Forums -Lannoy, famille de
Tableau généalogique d'ensemble des alliances de familles entres elles
Comprend les familles de: Montmorency, Croÿ, Tourzel, Béran, Villefranche, Lannoy.
sur 1 bobine de microfilm ; 35 mm.
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 Amazon.com: "Marquise de Tourzel": Key Phrase page
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M O R T I FIE] ship." The Marquise de Tourzel was at the age of forty a widow with five children; her husband, like herself a devoted adherent of the...
she chose as their governess the Marquise de Tourzel, a woman who combined "an illustrious ancestry with the most exemplary virtue," according to the king.
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 Chronicle
Ernestine Lambriquet (born as Marie-Philippine de Lambriquet) is born in Versailles (France) as illegitimate daughter of Louis XVI and the maid Philippine de Lambriquet.
Madame Royale (Marie Thérèse Charlotte) is born in Versailles (France) as daughter of king Louis XVI and queen Marie Antoinette.
Madame Royale and her guardian L. van der Valck (alias Vavel de Versay) arrives at Ingelfingen (Germany).
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