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: Marie Chamand, Comtesse de Lavalette (1781-1855)


Marie Chamand, Comtesse de Lavalette (1781-1855)

Marie Chamand, Comtesse de Lavalette (1781-1855), wife of Comte de Lavalette, French politician and Napoleonic general, and niece of Josephine Beauharnais. In 1815 she saved husband's life by changing clothes with him and enabling him to escape from prison shortly before due to be executed under the second Bourbon restoration. Stipple engraving from History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution... by CH Gifford (London, 1817)

Picture No
13901103
Media ID
48360929
Size
2232px x 2771px (1.4MB)
Credit
World History Archive / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
World History Archive

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1815 1817 Beauharnais Bourbon Changing Comte Comtesse Enabling Executed Gifford Josephine Lavalette Niece Occasioned Saved Shortly Stipple


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