Aglaé Auguié

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Portrait of Aglaé by François Gérard, c. 1810

Aglaé Auguié (24 March 1782 – 2 July 1854), was a French court official and wife of the senior army commander Marshal of the Empire Ney.

Early life

Aglaé was born in Paris on 24 March 1782. She was a daughter of Pierre César Auguié (1738–1815) and Adélaïde Henriette Genet (1758–1794).[1]

Her aunt was Henriette Campan and uncle was Citizen Genêt.[2]

Court

She served as lady-in-waiting (

King of Holland, making her her stepfather’s sister-in-law..[3]

Personal life

Ney's three eldest sons, painted by Marie-Éléonore Godefroid in 1810

She married Michel Ney[4] at Thiverval-Grignon on 5 August 1802.[5] Together, they had four sons:[6]

After the execution of her first husband, she secretly married Brigadier General Marie Louis Jules d'Y de Résigny (1788–1857) in Italy in 1816. Another officer with Napoleon, he had been imprisoned in Malta until August 1816.

She died in Paris on 2 July 1854.

References

  1. ^ Holland), Hortense (Queen Consort of Louis, King of (1927). Mémoires de la reine Hortense (in French). Plon. p. 38. Retrieved 1 July 2024.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. . Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  3. . Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  4. ^ Arnaud Chaffanjon, Napoléon et l’univers impérial, Paris, Serg, 1969
  5. ^ Atteridge 1912, pp. 107–109.
  6. ^ Atteridge 1912, p. 109.

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