Elisabeth Haudry

Elisabeth - Francoise Haudry , by her marriage Madam de Montullé is a French personality born on March 19th 1734 and died in Paris on March 13rd 1800.

Biography

Girl of the farmer general Andre Haudry - but also little girl and niece of merchants bakers of Corbeil and the Suburb Saint-Anthony - Elisabeth Haudry married in March 1750 Jean-Baptist-François de Montullé of which it had five children:

Jean Charles Andre (° June 29th 1751); he became officer, without alliance;
a girl born and deceased on March 11th 1753;
Elisabeth Florida (° October 25th 1754), which married the January 15th 1774 the marquis Marie-Charles of Chilleau; their Agricultural-Florida daughter of Chilleau (February 19th 1786, Paris - January 20th 1864, Angers) Maria on February 5th 1808 with the count Pierre Prosper de Terves (1774 - 1839);
Emilie Sophie (° May 8th 1756), which married the January 16th 1775 the marquis Henri Roland Lancelot Turpin de Crissé;
Jean-Baptiste Hyacinthe (° November 7th 1757); officer of cavalry, it married in Paris on April 18th 1787 Marie Louise Julienne Glaize de Maisonseule.

Woman of spirit, it protected the men of letters and was interested with her husband in sciences and arts. Jean-François Marmontel tells with enthusiasm a stay of youth in the country house of these model parents, the care inculcated to the children, the “life regular and agreeably applied which one carried out, talents cultivated in this intelligent and ordered medium…” and finishes by this small feature: “Mrs. de Montullé had in the spirit and the character this grain of honest coquettery which, mixed with the decency, gives to approvals of a woman more promptness, brilliance and attraction. She called me philosopher, persuaded well that I was it hardly; and, to be played of my philosophy was one of its pastimes…” The Musée Cop has with Chantilly two drawings of Carmontelle representing it; one of them is entitled: “towards 1760, Elisabeth Oudry and her children of Monthulé”, orthography sometimes given at the time.

After having carried out a very privileged life, holding a living room shining in its large hotel of the 13 Street of Seek-Midday filled of book and objets d'art, with the Castle of Holy-Base, then with the castle of Briche with Epinay-sur-Seine, it took refuge in a friend when her husband suddenly sold in detail all his collections under the initial m.t. with the Bullion hotel at the end of December 1783. It went to live with the household Turpin de Crissé with the Gobelins where the family manufacture of dyeing and fine cloths inherited in 1766 was then in great difficulty but it died ruined in a room of the Palais Royal on August 26th 1787.

In 1793, a petition requiring the slackening of the “citizen Audry Montullé widow”, stopped under pretext which it was rich, proves that it had decided not to follow the example of her brother, the general ex-farmer Pierre-Andre Haudry de Soucy whose it also made great noise in January 1781 failliteavait. With the head of the important manufacture which gave work during the Révolution to about fifty workmen and the many poor of the General hospital, it was assigned there with residence by the revolutionary committee which later, after having inspected its house, renewed its decision more to imprison it “because of the essential need of its presence to its manufacture where one works without stopping for the service of the armies of the Republic”.

Privileges expired in 1787, debts of its husband - who had lent 400.000 books to his brother-in-law - an oldest son player, restitution of shares of heritage of which that of the marquis d' Albertas (another brother-in-law) and much of other risks had to return to him a quite different existence until in 1800, year of its death in the hotel of 3 rue Gobelin, last vestige of a last splendor that the creditors of its son seized four years later. The baron de Frénilly mentions it in his Mémoires : “This Mrs. de Montullé, famous and celebrated in last century for its spirit, its richness, its graces, and in which the wallet abounded in academic homages. When I saw this Dawn and this Diane, it was nothing any more but one weak and ratatinée mortal who had saved her divinity only one your exquisite and a great use of the world”. One of its grandsons, Lancelot Theodore Turpin de Crissé (1782 - 1859), thanks to its only talents of painter, became with the protection of Choiseul-Gouffier, chamberlain of the empress Joséphine and was member of the royal Académie of painting and sculpture.

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