Yolande de Polastron
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Yolande de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac was the favourite of Marie Antoinette, whom she met when she was presented at the Palace of Versailles in 1775, the year after Marie Antoinette became the Que
Portrait by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1782. (styled after Self-portrait in a Straw Hat)
Marie Antoinette was instantly "dazzled" by the duchess of Polignac
Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil by François-Hubert Drouais, 1758
A more formal portrait of the Duchesse de Polignac by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Jules de Polignac
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Jules Auguste Armand Marie de Polignac, Count of Polignac, then Prince of Polignac, and briefly 3rd Duke of Polignac in 1847, was a French statesman and ultra-royalist politician after the Revolution.
Yolande de Polastron
…a few years of the marriage, Jules and Gabrielle had two children: a daughter Aglaé and a son. Two more sons followed several years later, including Jules, prince de Polignac, who became the prime minister of France in 1829, under Charles X. Most surviving portraits show her to be pretty. One historian said that Gabrielle…
Portrait by François Gérard
Portrait of Jules de Polignac during the First Empire
Jules Armand de Polignac 1780–1847