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BARON See also:MARQUIS DE COURTANVAUX GILLES DE See also:SOUVREI  , DE LEZINES (c . 1540-1626), See also:marshal of See also:France, belonged to an old See also:family of the See also:Perche . He accompanied the See also:duke of See also:Anjou to See also:Poland in 1573, and was appointed See also:master of the See also:ward-robe and See also:captain of See also:Vincennes when Anjou became See also:Henry III . He remained in favour, despite the opposition of the See also:queen-See also:mother, See also:Catherine de Medicis, fought at Contras, defended See also:Tours against the Leaguers, was named See also:chevalier de See also:Saint Esprit and See also:governor of See also:Touraine (1585), and was one of the first to recognize Henry IV . (1589), who subsequently entrusted him with the See also:education of the dauphin . See also:Louis XIII. rewarded him with the See also:title of marshal in 1613 . He died in See also:Paris in 1626 . SOUZA-BOTELHO, See also:ADELAIDE FILLEUL, MARQUISE DE (1761—1836), See also:French writer, was See also:born in Paris on the 14th of May 1761 . Her mother, See also:Marie See also:Irene Catherine de See also:Buisson, daughter of the seigneur of Longpre, near See also:Falaise, married a See also:bourgeois of that See also:town named Filleul . It was reported, though no See also:proof is forthcoming, that Mme Filleul had been the See also:mistress of Louis XV . Her See also:husband became one of the See also:king's secretaries, and See also:lime Filleul made many See also:friends, among them See also:Marmontel . Their eldest daughter, Julie, married See also:Abel See also:Francois See also:Poisson, See also:marquis de See also:Marigny (1727—1781); Adelaide married in 1779 See also:Alexandre Sebastien de Flahaut de la Billarderie, See also:comte de Flahaut, a soldier of some reputation, who was many years her See also:senior .

In Paris she soon gathered See also:

round her a See also:salon, in which the See also:principal figure was Talleyrand . There are many allusions to their liaison in the See also:diary of Gouverneur See also:Morris . In 1785 was born her son Auguste See also:Charles See also:Joseph de Flahaut (q.v.), who was generally known to be Talleyrand's son . Mme de Flahaut fled from Paris in 1792 and joined the society of emigres at Mickleham, See also:Surrey, described in Mme d'Arblay's See also:Memoirs . Her husband remained at See also:Boulogne, where he was arrested on the 29th of See also:January 1793 and guillotined . Mme de Flahaut now supported herself by See also:writing novels, of which the first, Adele de Sennange (See also:London, 1794), which is partly autobiographical, was the most famous . She presently See also:left London for See also:Switzerland, where she met Louis Philippe, duke of See also:Orleans . She travelled in his See also:company to See also:Hamburg, where she lived for two years, earning her living as a See also:milliner . She returned to Paris in 1798, and on the 17th of See also:October 1802 she married Jose Maria de Souza-Botelho Mourao e Vasconcellos (1758—1825), Portuguese See also:minister plenipotentiary in Paris . Her husband was recalled in 1804, and was offered the St See also:Petersburg See also:embassy; but in the next See also:year he resigned, to See also:settle permanently in Paris, where he had many friends, among them the historian See also:Sismondi . He spent his See also:time chiefly in the preparation of a beautiful edition of the Lusiads of See also:Camoens, which he completed in 1817 . Mme de Souza lost her social See also:power after the fall of the First See also:Empire, and was deserted even by Talleyrand, although he continued his patronage of Charles de Flahaut .

Her husband died in 1825, and after the See also:

accession of Louis Philippe she lived in See also:comparative retirement till her See also:death on the 19th of See also:April 1836 . She brought up her See also:grandson, Charles, duc de See also:Morny, her son's natural son by Queen Hortense . Among her later novels were La Cozntesse de Fargy (1822) and La Duchesse de See also:Guise (1831) . Her See also:complete See also:works were published in 1811—1822 . See See also:Baron A. de Maricourt, Madame de Souza et sa fanzille (1907) Lettres inedites de J . C . L. de Sismondi . . . et de Madame de Souza (Paris, 1863), ed . St Rene See also:Taillandier; Sainte-Beuve, Portraits de femmes (x844); and for Mme de Filleul, MM. de See also:Goncourt, See also:Les Mattresses de Louis XV . (1860) and J . F . Marmontel (1804) .

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