Grace Elliott
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Grace Dalrymple Elliott was a Scottish courtesan, writer and spy resident in Paris during the French Revolution. She was an eyewitness to events detailed in her memoirs, Journal of my life during the
Grace Elliott (1754?–1823). Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, 1778. (In the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, was a French Prince of the Blood who supported the French Revolution.
Grace Elliott
…posthumously in 1859. She was mistress, first to the future George IV, by whom she is said to have borne an illegitimate daughter, and then to the Duke of Orléans. Elliott trafficked correspondence and helped condemned Royalists and members of the French nobility escape from the First French Republic during the…
Portrait by Antoine-François Callet
Portrait of a young Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans, by Louis Tocqué.
Louise Marie Adélaïde as the Duchess of Chartres
Louis Philippe d'Orléans, as Duke of Chartres, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1779, Château de Chantilly