Cecile Delessert
See also: Delessert
Cecile Julie Therese Delessert , by its marriage viscountess de Valon (1847), then countess of Nadaillac (1852), is a personality French, painter in watercolours, born in 1825 and died in 1887.
Biography
Exit of a family of bankers calvinists originating in Geneva but installed initially with Lyon then in Paris, girl of Gabriel Delessert (1786 - 1858) and of Valentine de Laborde (1806 - 1894), Cécile Delessert marries in first weddings, 1847, the Viscount Alexis of Small valley (1818 - 1851), wire of a deputy of the Corrèze under the Restauration. This one is not long in committing suicide accidentally. One year later, in 1852, it remarie with colonel Sigismond of Pouget, count de Nadaillac, enthusiastic legitimist near to the count de Chambord, to which it returns visit with her husband to Frohsdorf.Under the Second Empire, it becomes lady-in-waiting of the empress Eugenie, which had been one of his/her playmates when they were children, and regularly accompanies it with Biarritz where, excellent painter in watercolours, it carries out many landscapes and dead natures. It is also at its sides for the inauguration of the Suez Canal in 1869, of which it brings back a book of illustrations.
She dies without descent in 1887.
References
Sources
- François d' Ormesson and Jean-Pierre Thomas, Jean-Joseph de Laborde, banker of Louis XV, patron of the Lights , Paris, Perrin, 2002 - ISBN 2-262-01820-0
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