Amélie de Boufflers

Biography

Only daughter of Charles-Joseph de Boufflers, grand-daughter and heiress of the richissime marshal's wife de Luxembourg, it made in 1760, the knowledge of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. According to Mrs Necker, it had “a figure, a softness, a timidity virginal”.

In 1776 it married Armand Gontaut-Biron, duke of Lauzun. After a few months of marriage “beautiful Lauzun” had enough of its shy person of it marries and left towards other female conquests.

In 1791, it emigrated, but not to fall under the blow from the relative orders to the emigrants, it returned in France, then set out again after the Journée of August 10th, 1792. Not wanting to see its confiscated goods it returned again to France. Stopped twice like suspect, she was condemned to died and was guillotinée the 9 messidor An II (June 27th 1794) and was buried with the Cimetière of Picpus.

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