Élisabeth Françoise Armide de Rochechouart
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Élisabeth François Armide Durey de Morsan, countess of Rochechouart (1757–1805), daughter of a notable writer, was a French noblewoman involved in continued underground counter-revolutionary resistance to the French Revolution
. These included an attempt to arrange the escape of her friend Marie-Antoinette.
In 1775 she married count Jules de Rochechouart and they had two sons (Louis and Louis-Victor-Léon
) and a daughter.
French Revolution
The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
. These included an attempt to arrange the escape of her friend Marie-Antoinette.
In 1775 she married count Jules de Rochechouart and they had two sons (Louis and Louis-Victor-Léon
Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart
Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart was a French general of the House of Rochechouart fighting in the Royalist, Imperial Russian and Bourbon armies of the Napoleonic Wars.- A peripatetic childhood :...
) and a daughter.