Première dame d'honneur
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Première dame d'honneur, or simply dame d'honneur, was an office at the royal court of France. It existed in nearly all French courts from the 16th-century onward. Though the tasks of the post shifted
Prud'hon – Louise Antoinette Scholastique Guéheneuc (1782–1856)
Countess de Noailles
Marie Louise was Duchess of Parma from 11 April 1814 until her death in 1847. She was Napoleon's second wife and as such Empress of the French and Queen of Italy from their marriage on 2 April 1810 un
Première dame d'honneur
…Princess of Chimay 1791–1792: Geneviève de Gramont, Countess d'Ossun Joséphine de Beauharnais, 1804–1814 1804–1809: Adélaïde de La Rochefoucauld Marie Louise, 1810–1814 1810–1814: Louise Antoinette Lannes, Duchess of Montebello Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, 1830–1848 1830–1848: Christine-Zoë de Montjoye…
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, c. 1812
The Wedding of Napoleon and Marie Louise by Georges Rouget, 1810
Marie Louise with the King of Rome by Joseph Franque, 1811
Napoleon Bids Farewell to His Guard by Horace Vernet. In April 1814 Napoleon attempted to abdicate in favour of his son with Marie Louise as regent