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Jeanne Sophie by Roslin.

Septimanie d'Egmont or Jeanne Sophie de Vignerot du Plessis (Jeanne Louise Armande Élisabeth Sophie Septimanie; 1740 in Languedoc - 14 October 1773), was a French salonist.

Biography

Born as the daughter of Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu, and Élisabeth Sophie de Lorraine (daughter of Joseph, Count of Harcourt), she was raised with her paternal aunt in a Benedictine convent and married in 1755 to Don Casimir Pignatelli, Count of Egmont.

She hosted a salon which gathered "the literary celebrities of the days" including Voltaire and Rousseau and was a center to the opposition of 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 and continued 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]

Ancestry

Family of Septimanie d'Egmont
16. René de Vignerot, Seigneur of Pontcourlay
8. François II de Vignerot, Marquis of Pontcourlay
17. Françoise du Plessis
4. Armand Jean de Vignerot du Plessis
18. Thomas de Guémadeuc, Baron of Guemadeuc
9. Marie Françoise de Guémadeuc
19. Jeanne Ruellan
2. Armand de Vignerot du Plessis
20. Honorat d'Acigné, Comte de Grand-Bois
10. Jean-Léonard, Comte d'Acigné
21. Jacqueline de Lavallezé
5. Anne Marguerite d'Acigné
22. Honorat-Auguste d'Acigné, Comte de Grand-Bois
11. Anne-Marie d'Acigné, Comtesse de Grand-Bois
23. Renée de Keraldanet
1. Jeanne Sophie de Vignerot du Plessis
24. François Louis, Count of Harcourt
12. Alphonse Henri, Count of Harcourt
25. Anne d'Ornano
6. Joseph, Count of Harcourt
26. Charles de Brancas
13. Marie Françoise de Brancas
27. Suzanne Garnier
3. Élisabeth Sophie de Lorraine
28. Nicolas Jeannin de Castille
14. Gaspard Jeannin de Castille
29. Claude de Fieubet
7. Marie Louise Jeannin de Castille
30. Nicolas Dauvet
15. Louise Diane Dauvet des Marets
31. Chrétienne de Lantage

References

  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

Sources

  • Marie-Célestine-Amélie-de Segur Armaille, Comtesse d', La comtesse d'Egmont, fille du maréchal de Richelieu, 1740-1773. D'après ses lettres inédites à Gustave III, Perrin et Cie, 1890.
  • Jean-Claude Hauc, "Septimanie d'Egmont, princesse républicaine" in Trois femmes des Lumières, Les Editions de Paris, 2010.
  • Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 6. Degeberg - Egyptolog Template:Sv icon
  • Beth Hennings, Grevinnan d'Egmont och Gustav III (1920)