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In 1786 Sophie de Grouchy married the famous mathematician and philosopher Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (17 September 1743 – 29 March 1794). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Then 21 or 22, she was an acknowledged beauty; he was 42 and Inspector-General of the Mint and a prominent French Academician.
Grouchy (or de Grouchy) is a French surname. Johannes de Grocheio (Johannes de Grocheio) (c. 1255 – c. 1320), French musical theorist; Jean de Grouchy (1354 - 1435), knight at the time of the Hundred Years' War; Sophie de Condorcet (Sophie de Condorcet) (1764 - 1822), born Marie-Louise-Sophie de Grouchy, French writer and wife of Nicolas de ...
The Chart of Biography covers a vast timespan, from 1200 BC to 1800 AD, and includes two thousand names. Priestley organized his list into six categories: Statesman and Warriors; Divines and Metaphysicians; Mathematicians and Physicians (natural philosophers were placed here); Poets and Artists; Orators and Critics (prose fiction authors were ...
Grouchy was born in Paris on 23 October 1766 into a family of the noblesse d'épée, the son of François-Jacques de Grouchy, 1st Marquis de Grouchy (born 1715) and Gilberte Fréteau de Pény (died 1793). [3] He was raised at the Château de Villette (known as "the little Versailles"), his family's estate in Condécourt, northwest of Paris. [3]
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Marie Thérèse Sophie Richard de Ruffey. Marie-Thérèse-Richard de Ruffey, Marquise de Monnier (January 9, 1754 - September 8, 1789), [1] usually called Sophie, was the mistress of Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau. She was famously involved in a scandal during which she ran away with Mirabeau to Switzerland.
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Élisabeth-Antoinette Le Michaud d'Arçon de Vaudey (27 October 1773, in Besançon – 1833?) was a French lady-in-waiting (Dame du Palais). She was famous for her affair with the French Emperor Napoleon , which was a cause of a violent scene between the Emperor and the Empress Joséphine shortly before their coronation.