The Duchess CHOISEUL DE GRAMONT. Béatrix de Choiseul-Stainvi - Lot 153

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The Duchess CHOISEUL DE GRAMONT. Béatrix de Choiseul-Stainvi - Lot 153
The Duchess CHOISEUL DE GRAMONT. Béatrix de Choiseul-Stainville (born in 1729 and died guillotined in Paris on April 17, 1794), Duchess de Gramont, was a French salonnière and bibliophile. Daughter of the Marquis François-Joseph de Choiseul, Marquis de Stainville, and Marie-Louise de Bassompierre and sister of the minister Choiseul, the Countess de Choiseul-Stainville was canoness of Remiremont. She married Antoine VII, Duke of Gramont, Governor of Navarre, who consented to this union on Choiseul's promise to lift the ban on his property. When she was summoned in 1794 before the Revolutionary Tribunal which was to condemn her to the scaffold, she was asked: "Didn't you send money to emigrants?", she replied: "I was going to say no, she answered, but my life is not worth a lie!" - Letter A.S. written in CHANTELOUP of (Chanteloup Castle in Indre-et-Loire) on February 8, 1772 addressed to M. de BAZIGNAN Commander of the Order of Saint Lazarus in AGEN. Letter of thanks following the reception of wishes for the new year charged with a red seal with the ducal crown. Signed "Choiseul Duchess of Gramont".
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