Marie-Aurore de Saxe
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Marie-Aurore de Saxe, known after her first marriage as Countess of Horn and after the second as Madame Dupin de Francueil, was an illegitimate daughter of Marshal Maurice de Saxe and a grandmother of
Marie-Aurore de Saxe as Diana. Portrait attributed to Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, ca. 1777. Currently displayed in the Musée de la Vie Romantique, Paris.
Marie Rinteau de Verrières, Marie-Aurore's mother.
Petition sent in the name of Marie-Aurore to the Dauphine, born Maria Josepha of Saxony, 1755.
Marie-Aurore de Saxe dressed as a shepherdess, ca. 1770.
Maurice Dupin de Francueil
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Maurice François Élisabeth Dupin de Francueil was a French army officer, father of Aurore Dupin de Francueil, baroness Dudevant, better known as George Sand.
Marie-Aurore de Saxe
…St-Gervais-et-St-Protais. Years later, Marie-Aurore remembered her husband to their granddaughter: On 9 January 1778, Marie-Aurore gave birth to a son, Maurice-François-Élisabeth Dupin de Francueil, in Le Marais district of Paris; his baptism took place on 18 January, being his godfather the Marquis François de Polignac and his godmother Élisabeth…
Anonymous portrait of Maurice Dupin in imperial army officer uniform (Domaine de Nohant-Vic).