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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 ...
Sophie Victoire Alexandrine de Girardin was the second child of René de Girardin and Cécile Brigitte Adélaïde Berthelot. She married Alexandre de Vassy, the marquess of Pirou in 1781 and the couple had a son, Amédée. Widowed a few years later, she married Chrétien André Guillaume de Bohm (1768–1824) in 1803. They had a daughter and a ...
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]
In 1791, Condorcet, along with Sophie de Grouchy, Thomas Paine, Etienne Dumont, Jacques-Pierre Brissot, and Achilles Duchastellet published a brief journal titled Le Républicain, its main goal being the promotion of republicanism and the rejection of constitutional monarchy. The journal's theme was that any sort of monarchy is a threat to ...
Pastel portrait of Sophia Gay, by Claire Laloua, 1842. Sophie Gay was the mother of the writer Delphine de Girardin, and her son-in-law married the chanteuse Sophie Gail.. In 1818, Sophie wrote the libretto for the opéra comique la Sérénade by Regnard, which Sophie Gail set to music.
Portrait of Sophie de Tott in 1785. Sophie-Ernestine de Tott (1758 – 1848) was a French painter. Born in Constantinople, Tott was the daughter of François Baron de Tott, who served as a consul in that city, and was of Hungarian descent. A chanoinesse of Sainte-Anne de Munich, she was entitled by rank to be called "Madame" and is usually so ...
Born on October 28, 1810, Sophie de Bezancourt was the daughter of Jean Baptiste Maximilien Joseph Antoine Lecat, baron de Bazancourt, [1] and his wife Élisabeth Marie Constance Henriette d'Houdetot. [2] She was Sophie d'Houdetot's granddaughter, and frequented her salon with select society.