They also had a Hôtel located at the nº 15 of the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile at the parish of Saint-Gervais. Louis-Claude Dupin invested in cloth factories that enriched the Berry citizens without being profitable for the owner. They had a large service with a stable, a cavalry and kennels with several dogs. They settled at Château Raoul, the former home of the Princes of Chauvigny, and led a lavish lifestyle well above their means. The couple spent part of the year at Châteauroux in 1783, where Louis-Claude managed the inheritance from his father Claude Dupin. The only child of Marie-Aurore and Louis-Claude Dupin de Francueil, he was named after his maternal grandfather, the Marshal de Saxe, and both godparents. On 9 January 1778, Marie-Aurore gave birth a son, Maurice-François-Élisabeth Dupin de Francueil, in Le Marais district of Paris his baptism took place on 18 January, being his godfather the Marquis François de Polignac and his godmother Élisabeth Varanchan, by marriage Madame de Chalut. Your grandfather, my child, was beautiful, elegant, neat, graceful, fragrant, cheerful, kind, affectionate and even-tempered until the hour of his death. And then she added, is that we were never in the old days!.This is the revolution that brought the old age into the world. Thus he wanted and never called me her daughter, even in public. Years later, Marie-Aurore remembered her husband to their granddaughter: An old love more than a young man, she said, and it's impossible not to love who loves us perfectly. Three months later, the newlyweds returned to France and validated their marriage at Paris on 15 April 1777 in the Church of St-Gervais-et-St-Protais. The wedding was celebrated in London on 14 January 1777 at the chapel of the French Embassy in England. Louis-Claude asked for the hand of Marie-Aurore. Louis-Claude wasn't a stranger to Marie-Aurore in fact, he was an old lover of her aunt Geneviève. She was frequently visited there by Louis-Claude Dupin de Francueil, a 62-year-old financier and friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Marie-Aurore then retired with a servant to the English convent at Fossés Saint-Victor street in Paris. On 22 October 1775 at Paris, Marie Rinteau died aged 45. Then, Marie-Aurore returned to live with her mother, Marie Rinteau. She turned initially to Voltaire, an admirer of her father, who recommended that she approach the Countess of Choiseul, but this was unsuccessful. Deprived of her protector, the pension that Marie-Aurore received didn't cover her expenses. Maria Josepha of Saxony died on 13 March 1767 at Versailles. Louis-Claude Dupin de Francueil, Marie-Aurore's second husband. The Dauphine placed Marie-Aurore in an institution for young girls, firstly at the Ursuline convent in Saint-Cloud and later in the Maison royale de Saint-Louis in Saint-Cyr, founded by Madame de Maintenon. įollowing the death of the Count of Friesen, Marie-Aurore (aged 7) was separated from her mother by command of the Dauphine. King Louis XV granted her a pension of 800 livres. A petition was addressed to the Dauphine, Maria Josepha of Saxony, a niece of the Marshal, the same year in favor of Marie-Aurore, proving her existence and ensuring her education. One of the nephews of the Marshal de Saxe, the Count of Friesen, known in France under the name of Comte de Frise, who inherited property from the Marshal, provided financial help to Marie-Aurore, but his death in 1755 deprived her of all support. The latter spent generously on her, and installed her, along with her sister, in the Quartier d'Auteuil. Marie-Aurore's mother later had love affairs with Jean-François Marmontel and the fermier général, Denis Joseph Lalive d'Épinay. Petition sent in the name of Marie-Aurore to the Dauphine, born Maria Josepha of Saxony, 1755.
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