Madame de Rémusat
Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes de Rémusat (5 January 1780 – 16 December 1821) was a French woman of letters. She married at sixteen, and was attached to the Empress Josephine as dame du palais in 1802.
Also recorded as Madame de Remusat · Claire Elisabeth Jeanne de Rémusat · Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes de Rémusat · Clair Élisabeth Gravier de Vergennes
Madame de Rémusat
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- Name
- Madame de Rémusat
- Born
- 5 January 1780
- Birthplace
- Paris
- Died
- 16 December 1821
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- salonnière, writer and lady-in-waiting.
- Fields
- memoir.
- Languages
- French.
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• Name — Madame de Rémusat • Born — 5 January 1780 • Birthplace — Paris • Died — 16 December 1821 • Place of death — Paris
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Talleyrand was among her admirers, and she was generally regarded as a woman of great intellectual capacity and personal grace. After her death, her Essai sur l'éducation des femmes, was published and received academic approval, but it was not until her grandson, Paul de Rémusat, published her Mémoires (3 vols., Paris, 1879–80), which followed by some correspondence with her son (2 vols., 1881), that justice could be done to her literary talent. Claire's memoirs threw light not only on the Napoleonic court, but also on the youth and education of her son Charles de Rémusat. He developed political views more liberal than those of his parents. She was the granddaughter of Jean Gravier, marquis de Vergennes, elder brother of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chief Minister of King Louis XVI, Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes.
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1780
Madame de Rémusat born at Paris.
1821
Madame de Rémusat died at Paris.
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- 1.Sainte-Beuve, Écrivains moralistes de la France, Revue des Deux Mondes Volume 50, p.867.
- 2.dans une lettre inédite, écrite par lui à M. Sainte-Beuve auquel il voulait donner quelques détails biographiques pour une étude de la Revue des Deux Mondes, cité par Paul de Rémusat dans sa préface p.19.
- 3.Le portrait est écrit sur le papier officiel du sénat, se terminant par « la séance est finie ; la suite aux élections de l’année prochaine », cité par Paul de Rémusat dans sa préface aux Mémoires de sa grand-mère, p.29.
- 4.cité par Paul de Rémusat dans sa préface aux Mémoires de sa grand-mère, p.15.
- 5.Charles de Rémusat, Mémoires de ma vie, Plon, 1958, T.1, p. 53.
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- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Écrivains moralistes de la France, IX. Madame de Rémusat (1842) Texte sur Wikisource
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