Henriette Deluzy-Desportes
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Henriette Deluzy-Desportes was a French governess who was the subject of a scandal with Charles Laure Hugues Théobald, duc de Choiseul-Praslin. The scandal played a role in bringing down the King of F
Henrietta Deluzy Desportes Field
Johann Stephan Decker (1784-1844), Félix Desportes (1763–1849), September 1818. He was Henriette's maternal grandfather.
Rev. Henry Martyn Field
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Françoise, Duchess de Choiseul-Praslin was a French duchess and heiress who was found murdered. Her husband, Charles de Choiseul, Duke of Praslin was believed guilty for her death and committed suicid
Henriette Deluzy-Desportes
…Deluzy, her charge was Hislop's only child Emma, who later became the Countess of Minto (wife of William Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 3rd Earl of Minto). Françoise (Fanny) Altarice Rosalba Sebastiani, duchesse de Praslin, and Charles Laure Hugues Théobald, duc de Choiseul-Praslin, hired Henriette in 1841 to be the governess to their daughters, or…
Madrazo Fanny Sébastiani della Porta
Portrait of the Duchess de Praslin in later years.