Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet
Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour-du-Pin-Gouvernet | |
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| Born | 25 February 1770 Paris, France |
| Died | 2 April 1853 (aged 83) Pisa, Italy |
| Nationality | French |
| Other names | Lucie de la Tour du Pin |
| Occupation | writer |
| Spouse(s) | Frédéric, Marquis de La Tour-du-Pin |
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Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour-du-Pin-Gouvernet (25 February 1770, Paris – 2 April 1853, Pisa) (also known as Lucie) was a French aristocrat famous for her posthumously published memoirs entitled Journal d'une femme de 50 ans. The memoirs are a first-hand account of her life through the Ancien Régime, the French Revolution, and the Imperial court of Napoleon, ending in March 1815 with Napoleon's return from exile on Elba. Her memoirs serve as unique testimony to much unchronicled history.