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31: 192:. Aimée went to London, where she rejoined Malmesbury. She gave birth to Malmesbury's child in London. In January 1793 she left London for Paris with Lord Malmesbury. He was soon arrested, but was released almost immediately and returned to London, leaving his mistress. She retired to her personal estate at 237:
In a sympathetic sketch, Victor du Bled says Aimée's second divorce gave her a freedom that she used or misused considerably. She had an ardent and eccentric imagination that exposed her to a thousand dangers to which she hastened to succumb. When someone remarked that divorce makes adultery useless,
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Around 1812 the 43-year-old Aimée de Coigny formed a liaison with the 45-year-old marquis Bruno-Gabriel de Boisgelin, and under his influence became an ardent royalist. She believed that the monarchy must be restored, but it should be a progressive monarchy that would reconcile freedom and order. In
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said that Aimée had an enchanting face, a burning gaze, and the figure of a Venus. One evening at the house of M. de Guéménée, she removed the long tail of her dress in front of fifty people. The princess, laughing, invited her to remove the dress too, and she rose to the challenge and remained for
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The marriage went from bad to worse from 1800 onward. The divorce due to incompatibility was pronounced on 6 Germinal year X (28 March 1802). Aimée again became known as Madame Aimée de Coigny. At the age of 31, Aimée de Coigny, once more free, fell in love with the 37-year-old Jacques Joseph Garat
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Aimée de Coigny was the daughter of Auguste-Gabriel de Franquetot, comte de Coigny. He was born in 1740, joined the army, became colonel of dragoons in 1763, maréchal-de-camp in 1780, and on 1 January 1811 gained the rank of lieutenant general. Her father married Anne Josèphe Michel de Roissy on 18
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I saw again with great pleasure; at Isle-Adam, the young Comtesse de Coigny, formerly Mademoiselle de Roissy, with whom I had been close at the Couvent du Précieux-Sang. She had originality, wit and good feelings; we renewed our acquaintance; she told me that she had a passion for anatomy, a very
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It was not known who was the subject of Chenier's poem until years later, when the subject came up in the salon of Gabriel Delessert, wife of the chief of police. The comte de Montrond was there, and revealed that it was Aimee de Coigny. He knew because he had married her.
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extraordinary taste in a young woman of eighteen. Since I had been somewhat occupied with surgery and medicine, and knew how to bleed, Madame de Coigny was very fond of chatting with me. I promised to do an anatomy class, but not like her, on corpses ..."
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153:. She married very young, as was common at the time; she was 15, he was 14. He became a duke in 1788. He was subject to nervous tics that were very disagreeable, and the marriage was not happy. Aimee became the mistress of 271:
Aimée de Coigny died on 17 January 1820 at the age of 50. She had confided her memoirs to Talleyrand, Montrond's friend, and it was long thought that they had been lost. They were later found and published as
415:. Some sources give the name of Aimée's second husband as Claude-Philibert-Hippolyte de Mouret, comte de Montrond. In fact it was Philippe-François-Casimir de Mouret, the second son, born in 1769. 142:
Anne-Françoise-Aimée de Coigny was born on 12 October 1769 and baptised in the church of Saint-Roch. Her mother died on 23 October 1775, and her father confided her upbringing to his mistress,
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Aimée became a famous beauty. She married André-Hercule-Marie-Louis de Rosset de Rocozel (1770–1810), marquis and later duc de Fleury in 1784. Her husband was the grand-nephew of Cardinal
263:, in London and told her of the conditions for Talleyrand to give his support to the king. The king instructed the duc to accept the offer. Not long after, the Russian army entered Paris. 872: 876: 322: 234:(known as Maillia-Garat). He was a member of the Tribunát and was known as an orator, but was not known as a republican. They lived together for six years. 831: 1195: 260: 1200: 1089: 994: 895: 851: 158: 787:
La jeune captive; Aimée de Coigny, duchesse de Fleury, et la société de son temps (1769-1820) d'après des documents nouveaux et inédits
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On 4 March 1794, despite the care she had taken to dissociate herself from any emigrants, she was arrested and taken to the
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André Hercule Marie Louis de Rosset de Rocozels, duc de Fleury (1767–1810), was an officer in the French army, then in the
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asked her in public, "Well, Madame, are you still so fond of men?" Her riposte was, "Yes, Sire, when they are polite."
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Mémoires de Armand-Louis de Gontaut, duc de Lauzun, général Biron, suivis de lettres adressées à l'auteur par sa femme
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Claude Philibert de Mouret, Seigneur de Montrond, had three sons: Edouard, Casimir and Hippolyte, all born in
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March 1767. Madame de Genlis was an intimate friend of Anne de Roissy, and wrote of her in her memoirs:
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Vittorini, D. (Summer 1939), "Review:: La Restaurazione Francese del 1814 by Aimée de Coigny",
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of 27 July 1794 and left for England. Their married life in London was not successful.
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Armand-Louis de Gontaut Biron; Amélie de Boufflers; Aimée de Coigny (1928),
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who was known as a great beauty and was imprisoned during the
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Savary, Anne-Jean-Marie-René (duc de Rovigo) (1828),
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Michaud, Joseph Fr.; Michaud, Louis Gabriel (1836),
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Paris
Paris
noblewoman
French Revolution
André Chénier
Victoire de Rohan
André-Hercule de Fleury
Armand Louis de Gontaut
Lord Malmesbury

Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller
French Revolution
Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé
Koblenz
Mareuil-en-Brie
Prison Saint-Lazare
André Chénier
Casimir de Mouret, comte de Montrond
louis
Thermidorian Reaction
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Napoleon
Tuileries Palace
Talleyrand
the duc de Coigny
Étienne Lamy
Amélie de Boufflers
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