Zoe Heel

Zoe Heel, countess of Cayla , born the August 25th 1785 with the Boullay-Thierry in the department of Eure-et-Loir, died in its Castle of Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) in 1852.

She was girl of the Talon lawyer, whom she saved, by its prayers, of the continuations to which it was exposed under Napoleon i like agent of the Bourbons. Allowed in the intimacy, and becoming main of Louis XVIII, it took on him large ascending.

As protected from the Viscount Sosthène of Rochefoucauld, it was the principal bond between the Ultra-royaliste S and the king. She agree to burn papers of the procedure Favras, which came to him from his/her father, and accepted in gift of the king the castle of St-Ouen, close Paris.

She dealt with farms and obtained a race of sheep which bears its name.

A rose tree obtained in 1902 by the rosierist P. Guillot bears the name of " Countess of Cayla".

See too

List of the mistresses of the kings de France

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