Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux
Illustration — Portrait of Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille by Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux, 1762 Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux, sometimes Lejeuneux or Jeuneux, later Baudin de La Chesnaye (died 15 April 1794) was a French painter. She also painted his portrait in 1762. The two were evidently close, for he asked after her in a number of his letters home from his expedition to Africa.
Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux
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- Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux died on 16 April 1794.
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- Kingdom of France.
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- painter, salonnière and cartographer.
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- French.
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Illustration — Portrait of Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille by Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux, 1762 Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux, sometimes Lejeuneux or Jeuneux, later Baudin de La Chesnaye (died 15 April 1794) was a French painter. She also painted his portrait in 1762. The two were evidently close, for he asked after her in a number of his letters home from his expedition to Africa.
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She was the daughter or sister of a M. Le Jeuneux who kept a cabinet of curiosities at the Hôtel de Chavigny and was acquainted with Benjamin Franklin. She is known to have held a salon. She married André Baudin de La Chesnaye, sometimes Chenaye (1732–1792), a former mousquetaire, chevalier de Saint-Louis, and later commander of the Paris national guard who was among those massacred at the La Force Prison in 1792. Anne-Louise drowned herself in the Seine two years later, upon the decree of the Banishment of Nobles by the Committee of Public Safety.
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1735
Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux born.
1794
Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux died.
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Nicolas Louis de La Caille
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