France in eighteen hundred and two : $b Described in a series of contemporary lettersYorke, Henry Redhead
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France in eighteen hundred and two : $b Described in a series of contemporary letters
Yorke, Henry Redhead
France -- Description and travel
He returned to France, and ended his days living in obscurity on a
small pension, and dying in 1820, at the age of fifty-one.
TALLIEN, COMTESSE OF CARAMON, PRINCESSE DE CHIMAY, THERESA
CABARRUS.
Born at Saragossa, in Spain, 1773; died at Chimay, in Belgium,
1835.
This beautiful woman was the daughter of the Count of Cabarrus, Spanish
Minister of Finance. At the age of sixteen she married M. Devin de
Fontenoy, Counsellor to the Parliament of Bordeaux. Her married life
was unhappy; and when the Republic instituted divorce, she obtained
one from her husband. After this she led a life of absolute freedom,
joined the revolutionary party, and became a conspicuous feature in
their meetings at Bordeaux. For some reason, now unknown, she was
imprisoned. Tallien, on his mission to Bordeaux as Commissionary of
the Republic, heard her beauty praised, visited her in her cell, fell
madly in love with her, and carried her back with him to Paris; there
she was arrested and again imprisoned. After her release and marriage
to Tallien, she became one of the most brilliant leaders of the corrupt
and immoral society of the Directorate. Her conduct, during the absence
of her husband in Egypt, passed all bounds of decency, and she gave
birth to two children, whom Tallien refused to acknowledge. He divorced
her in 1802.
In 1805 she married M. de Caramon, who became Prince de Chimay, by whom
she had a family of two sons and two daughters.
Although she had been the companion in prison of Josephine Beauharnais,
and both Tallien and herself intimate friends of the Bonapartes in the
early days of their married life, Napoleon would never allow his wife
to receive her publicly at the Tuileries, either as Mdme. Tallien or
the Princess de Chimay.
TREILHARD, JEAN BAPTISTE, COMTE DE.
Born at Brives, January 3, 1742; died in Paris, 1810.
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