Philip Francis (politician)
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Sir Philip Francis, GCB was a British Whig politician, pamphleteer and colonial administrator best known for being the possible identity of the anonymous writer Junius. A strong opponent of East India
Portrait by James Lonsdale, c. 1808
Catherine Grand
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Catherine Noël de Talleyrand-Périgord was a French courtesan and noblewoman. Born in India as the daughter of a French Indies Company official, she married George Grand, a clerk of the British East In
Philip Francis (politician)
…found to be "void of truth and honor"; such an opinion was aggravated by the various affairs Francis had during his stay in Calcutta, including one with Catherine Grand. A duel was the consequence, in which Francis received a dangerous wound. The duel between Warren Hastings and Phillip Francis took place in the early…
Portrait by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1806–1807
Catherine met her first husband, George Grand, at Ghiretta House Engraving by James Moffat, Calcutta, 1800
Madame Grand, 1783 portrait by Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun
Catherine painted by François Gérard between 1804 and 1805, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art