Adele d\' Osmond

Adelaide Charlotte Louise Éléonore known as Adele d' Osmond , by her marriage countess of Boigne , was born with Versailles the February 19th 1781 and died in Paris the May 10th 1866.

Biography

Girl of Rene Eustace, 4 {{E}} marquis d' Osmond (1751 - 1838) and of Éléonore Dillon (1753 - 1831), it marries in emigration in London, on June 11th 1798, Benoît de Boigne (1751 - 1830), of very small birth but strong rich person. They do not have a child. By mutual agreement, the husbands are not long in separating and Mr. de Boigne turns over food in Savoy in 1802.

Adele returns to France in 1804 and formed part, until the fall of the Empire, the royalist circles that Napoleon i tolerates. She binds with Madam de Staël and Mrs Récamier.

With the return of the Bourbons in 1814, it reaches a fashionable position of foreground. It follows initially her father, appointed ambassador, with Turin then with London before fixing itself definitively at Paris, with, at the beautiful season, some stays in its houses of Châtenay-Malabry and Trouville. It reigns on a living room very shining and enough mixed, where the high aristocracy mixes with the policy, the diplomacy and the literature.

The Monarchie of July should be the zenith of its glory. The family of Osmond is indeed very related to the family of Orleans, and Adele is itself an intimate friend of the queen of the French, Marie-Amélie de Bourbon (1782-1866). But it takes age and its living room a character too definitely political. She then puts herself to compose her famous memories, published in 1907 - 1908 (in a expurgée version, and in full text in 1921 - 1923) under the title: Accounts of an aunt, Memories of the countess of Boigne born of Osmond . It is an irreplaceable document on the Monarchie of July. Marcel Proust is an enthusiastic reader and takes as a starting point by it the memories of the countess of Boigne in Research .

It was the mistress of the duke of Fitz-James then chancellor Pasquier: “It was a rather widespread belief in Tileries and in Luxembourg, writing Montalivet, that after the death of Mrs. Pasquier, the Chancellor had married in England Mrs. de Boigne I am those which believed in the secret marriage. At all events, during the last part of his life, the duke Pasquier lived with the countess of Boigne in softest and the most constant intimacy. ”

It was also the friend of the count Pozzo di Borgo, ambassador of Russia in Paris, and of the count de Nesselrode, Foreign Minister of the Tsar.

She also wrote two novels, which were also published in posthumous title: the Marshal's wife d' Aubemer, news of the 18th century (1866) and a passion in the large world (1867).

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