Adelaide Filleul, Marquise de Souza-Botelho
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Adélaïde-Émilie (sometimes Émilie-Adélaïde) Filleul, Marquise de Souza-Botelho (14 May 1761 – 19 April 1836) was a French writer.
Biography
She was born in Paris.
Her mother,
Charles, duc de Morny), her father was also the king. Charles François Filleul became one of the king's secretaries, and Mme. Filleul made many friends, among them Jean-François Marmontel. Julie Filleul married at the Château de Menars in 1767 Abel-François Poisson, marquis de Vandières et de Marigny (1727–1781), the brother of Madame de Pompadour; Adelaide married on 30 November 1779 Charles François de Flahaut de La Billarderie, comte de Flahaut de La Billarderie, a soldier of some reputation, who was many years her senior.[2]
In Paris she soon gathered round her a salon, in which the principal figure was
Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs. Her husband remained at Boulogne-sur-Mer, where he was arrested on 29 January 1793 and guillotined. Mme. de Flahaut now supported herself by writing novels, of which the first, Adèle de Sénanges (London, 1794), which is partly autobiographical, was the most famous.[2]
She presently left London for
Vila Real. Her husband was recalled in 1804, and was offered the Saint Petersburg embassy; but in the next year he resigned, to settle permanently in Paris, where he had many friends, among them Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi. He spent his time chiefly in the preparation of a beautiful edition of the Lusiads of Luís de Camões, which he completed in 1817.[2]
Mme. de Souza lost her social power after the fall of the
Charles, duc de Morny, her son's natural son by Queen Hortense de Beauharnais. Among her later novels were La Comtesse de Fargy (1822) and La Duchesse de Guise (1831). Her complete works were published between 1811 and 1822.[2]
References
- ^ Valynseele, Joseph (1953). Les enfants naturels de Louis XV. Paris: Centre d'études et de recherches historiques. p. 121.
- ^ a b c d One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Souza-Botelho, Adélaide Filleul, Marquise de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 519.
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