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Jeanne Sophie de Vignerot du Plessis (Jeanne Louise Armande Élisabeth Sophie Septimanie; 1740 in Languedoc - 14 October 1773) was a French salonist.

Biography

Born as the daughter of duke Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis and Élisabeth Sophie de Lorraine, she was raised with her paternal aunt in a Benedictine convent and married in 1755 to count d'Egmont. She hosted a salon which gatthered "the literary celebraties of the days" including Voltaire and Rousseau and was a center to the opposition of Madame du Barry. Through her close friendship with the Swedish ambassador to France, U. Scheffer, she came to know the future Gustav III of Sweden during his visit to Paris in 1771 and continued a correspondence with him during his reign. She advised him to "repress the strife of the raging parties", advocated a "monarchy restrained by laws" and greeted his coup of 1772 with joy, especially its unbloodied character. She called Gustav III "The hero of my heart", and it is considered likely that she had influence "upon the enlightened, human, in many ways liberated direction of the early reign of Gustav III".

Ancestry

Family of Septimanie d'Egmont

16. René de Vignerot, Seigneur of Pontcourlay

8. François II de Vignerot, Marquis of Pontcourlay

17. Françoise du Plessis

4. Armand Jean de Vignerot du Plessis

18. Thomas de Guémadeuc, Baron of Guemadeuc

9. Marie Françoise de Guémadeuc

19. Jeanne Ruellan

2. Armand de Vignerot du Plessis

20. Honorat d'Acigné, Comte de Grand-Bois

10. Jean-Léonard, Comte d'Acigné

21. Jacqueline de Lavallezé

5. Anne Marguerite d'Acigné

22. Honorat-Auguste d'Acigné, Comte de Grand-Bois

11. Anne-Marie d'Acigné, Comtesse de Grand-Bois

23. Renée de Keraldanet

1. Jeanne Sophie de Vignerot du Plessis

24. François Louis, Count of Harcourt

12. Alphonse Henri, Count of Harcourt

25. Anne d'Ornano

6. Joseph, Count of Harcourt

26. Charles de Brancas

13. Marie Françoise de Brancas

27. Suzanne Garnier

3. Élisabeth Sophie de Lorraine

28. Nicolas Jeannin de Castille

14. Gaspard Jeannin de Castille

29. Claude de Fieubet

7. Marie Louise Jeannin de Castille

30. Nicolas Dauvet

15. Louise Diane Dauvet des Marets

31. Chrétienne de Lantage

Literature

d'Armaillé, "La comtesse d'Egmont, fille du maréchal de Richelieu, 1740-1773. D'après ses lettres inédites à Gustave III"

References

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