Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes de Rémusat (1780 – 1824). She married at sixteen, and was attached to the Empress Josephine as dame du palais in 1802.

Talleyrand was among her admirers, and she was generally regarded as a woman of great intellectual capacity and personal grace. After her death, her Essai sur l'éducation des femmes, was published and received academic approval, but it was not until her grandson, Paul de Rémusat

Paul de Rémusat

Paul de Rémusat , son of the French politician Charles de Rémusat, became a distinguished journalist and writer.He was for many years a regular contributor to the Revue des deux mondes. He stood for election in Haute-Garonne in 1869 in opposition to the imperial policy and failed, but was elected...

, published her Mémoires (3 vols., Paris, 1879–80), which followed by some correspondence with her son (2 vols., 1881), that justice could be done to her literary talent.

Claire's memoirs threw light not only on the Napoleonic court, but also on the youth and education of her son Charles de Rémusat

Charles de Rémusat

Charles François Marie, Comte de Rémusat , was a French politician and writer.-Biography:He was born in Paris. His father, Auguste Laurent, Comte de Rémusat, of a good family of Toulouse, was chamberlain to Napoleon Bonaparte, but acquiesced in the restoration and became prefect first of Haute...

. He developed political views more liberal than those of his parents.

External references

• Memoirs of Madame Rémusat 1802*1808, Paul de Rémusat, D. Appleton and Company, 1880
• A Selection from the Letters of Madame de Rémusat to Her Husband and Son, from 1804 to 1813, Frances Cashel Hoey, John Lillie, Paul Louis Étienne de Rémusat, D. Appleton and Company, 1881