Béatrix de Choiseul
| Béatrix de Choiseul | |
|---|---|
| Duchess o Gramont | |
 Portrait de la duchesse de Grammont, bi Alexander Roslin, c. 1774 | |
| Full name
Béatrix de Choiseul | |
| Born | 18 November 1729 Lunéville, Lorraine, Fraunce |
| Dee'd | 17 Apryle 1794 (aged 64) Paris, Fraunce |
| Spoose(s) | Antoine de Gramont, Duke o Gramont |
| Faither | François Joseph de Choiseul |
| Mither | Marie Louise Bassompierre |
'Béatrix de Choiseul (18 November 1729 - 17 Aprile 1794) wis a French noblewoman, salonnière an bibliophile. She wis executed in the French Revolution. After her mairriage it wis said that her salon could rival that o Madame de Pompadour.
Background[eedit | eedit soorce]
A dochter o François Joseph de Choiseul, Marquis o Stainville an his wife Marie Louise Bassompierre. She wis a sister o Étienne François de Choiseul, Duke o Choiseul, a minister o Louis XV.
Duchess o Gramont[eedit | eedit soorce]
She mairit Antoine de Gramont, (7t) Duke o Gramont 1722-1801)
Daith[eedit | eedit soorce]
An ambitious and firm woman, she was a distinguished bibliophile. When she was summoned in 1794 to the Revolutionary Tribunal, which was to condemn her tae the guillotine, she wis asked: "Did you not send money to emigrants?", She replied: "I wis going to say no, she replied, but my life is not worth a lie!".
Ither wabsteids[eedit | eedit soorce]
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