Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau-Craon
Madame de Boufflers | |
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Marquise of Boufflers | |
Marc, Prince of Craon | |
Mother | Anne Marguerite de Ligniville |
Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau, Marquise of Boufflers (8 December 1711 – 1 July 1786), commonly known as Madame de Boufflers, was a French noblewoman. She was the
Family
Her father was
Biography
Witty, well-educated and beautiful, the marquise de Boufflers wrote verse and drew in
To try to make the Marquise de Boufflers jealous and regain her affections, Saint-Lambert attempted to seduce the Marquise du Châtelet when the latter arrived in Lunéville in 1748. The Marquise du Châtelet fell passionately in love with the poet and became best friends with the Marquise de Boufflers, thus completely ruining the plans of Father Menou, Stanislas' confessor, who wanted to use her to dislodge the Marquise de Boufflers as chief mistress to the king.
Her witty poem "Sentir avec ardeur" is cited in French and in full by the twentieth-century Modernist poet Marianne Moore in the notes to Moore's poem "Tom Fool at Jamaica."
Stanislaus I had a chartreuse cottage constructed along the northern side of the
References
- ^ Ian Davidson - Voltaire, a life - Profile Books - London, 2010 - pages 232 and fol.
- ^ http://www.histoiresgalantes.fr/blog/2017/06/09/panpan-gardien-du-tempe-de-madame-de-boufflers/