Amélie de Boufflers
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Marie-Amélie de Boufflers, duchesse de Lauzun was a French noblewoman and heiress who was one of the influential princesses combinées at the court of Louis XVI. She was imprisoned and guillotined duri
Amélie de Boufflers
A depiction of Jean-Jacques Rousseau meeting the young Amélie de Boufflers at Château de Montmorency
The Duchess of Lauzun depicted alongside other members of the court of Louis XVI in a painting by Michel-Barthélémy Ollivier (1766)
Armand Louis de Gontaut
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Armand Louis de Gontaut, duc de Lauzun, later duc de Biron, and usually referred to by historians of the French Revolution simply as Biron, was a French soldier and politician, known for the part he p
Amélie de Boufflers
…than her face, nothing more tender and more chaste than the sentiments which she inspired". On 4 February 1766, at the age of just 14, she married Armand Louis de Gontaut, Duke of Lauzun at the Hôtel de Luxembourg. The marriage was a failure; after only a few months of marriage, Lauzun had left his wife to pursue other…
Armand Louis de Gontaut, duc de Lauzun, and duc de Biron
Armand Louis de Gontaut