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Septimanie d'Egmont

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Jeanne Sophie de Vignerot du Plessis
Countess of Egmont
The Countess by Roslin.
Full name
Jeanne Louise Armande Élisabeth Sophie de Vignerot du Plessis
Born1 March 1740
Montpellier, France
Died14 October 1773
BuriedBraine, Aisne, France
Spouse(s) Casimir Pignatelli, Count of Egmont (1755)
FatherLouis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duke of Richelieu
MotherPrincess Élisabeth Sophie of Lorraine

Jeanne Sophie de Vignerot du Plessis (Jeanne Louise Armande Élisabeth Sophie ; 1740 – 14 October 1773) known as Septimanie d'Egmont was a French salonist.

Biography

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Born the daughter of Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu, and Princess Élisabeth Sophie de Lorraine (daughter of Joseph, Count of Harcourt), a French prince étranger, she was raised with her paternal aunt in a Benedictine convent. In 1755 she was married to Don Casimir Pignatelli, Count of Egmont, Prince de Gavre (1727-1801), son of Don Procopio Pignatelli d'Egmont, Duke of Bisaccia, Prince de Gavre (1703-1743) and his wife, Henriette Julie de Durfort (1696-1779).

She hosted a salon which gathered "the literary celebrities of the days", including Voltaire and Rousseau, and was a center of opposition to Madame du Barry.[1] Through her close friendship with the Swedish ambassador to France, Ulrik Scheffer, she came to know the future Gustav III of Sweden during his visit to Paris in 1771. Thereafter she maintained a correspondence with him during his reign.[2] She advised him to "repress the strife of the raging parties", advocated a "monarchy restrained by laws" and greeted his coup of 1772 with joy, especially its non-bloody character.[3] She called Gustav III "The hero of my heart", and it is considered likely that she had influence "upon the enlightened, humanistic, in many ways liberated direction of the early reign of Gustav III".[4]

Rousseau visited her at her Château de Braine in 1771, where he recited his autobiographical work Confessions. [5] [6]

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 6. Degeberg - Egyptolog
  2. ^ Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 6. Degeberg - Egyptolog
  3. ^ Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 6. Degeberg - Egyptolog
  4. ^ Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 6. Degeberg - Egyptolog
  5. ^ From 4 to 8 May 1771, Rousseau visited Braine (source: www.rousseau-chronologie.com)
  6. ^ Blog describing Rousseau’s visit to Braine

Sources

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