For works based on her life and other holders of this nickname, see Madame Sans-Gêne

Madame Sans-Gêne

Madame Sans-Gêne may refer to:*Marie-Thérèse Figueur , French female soldier*Cathérine Hübscher, wife of Marshal of France François Joseph Lefebvre, whose life has been dramatised in:...

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Catherine Hubscher (Goldbach-Altenbach

Goldbach-Altenbach

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, 2 February 1753 - 1835) was a First French Empire

First French Empire

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 noblewoman, maréchale Lefebvre and duchesse de Dantzig by her marriage to François Joseph Lefebvre

François Joseph Lefebvre

François Joseph Lefebvre, First Duc de Dantzig was a French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon....

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She is best known by her nickname of Madame Sans-Gêne, though this was only attributed to her by the dramatist Victorien Sardou

Victorien Sardou

Victorien Sardou was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play...

 - the nickname's first holder was the woman soldier Thérèse Figueur

Marie-Thérèse Figueur

Marie-Thérèse Figueur was a French heroine involved in the French Revolutionary Army.- Life :...

, whom Napoleon I of France

Napoleon I of France

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...

gave the nickname Madame Sans-Gêne.