Albertine-Elisabeth Pater
Albertine-Elisabeth Pater (1742–1817), was a Dutch and French aristocrat and spy. She is known as the secret mistress of
Life
She was the daughter of the Dutch baron Johann Gisbert von Neukirchen or Nyvenheim (1705-1792) and Margriet van Wijhe (1714- ?), and married the rich Dutch banker Gerhard Pater in 1750. She separated from her spouse in 1763 and settled in Paris under the name and title baronenne de Nieukerque. By the allowance and inheritance from her spouse, which was founded on diamond mines and slave plantations in Dutch Suriname, she was very rich.
She was at one point the lover of minister
In 1779, she remarried Louis-Quentin de Richebourg,
Albertine-Elisabeth Pater used her personal fortune to finance the political party of the Dutch patriots. She allied herself with the French royalist émigrées, and acted as their financier as well as a go-between and agent between them and their contacts in France. She acted as a go-between in the correspondence between Marie Antoinette and Yolande de Polastron.
She was arrested and imprisoned for counterrevolutionary activity during the
References
- ^ Fleury, Maurice & comte, Louis XV intime et les petites maîtresses., Paris, 1909
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