Louise-Honorée-Françoise Polier de Corcelles, née Louise-Honorée-Françoise de Saussure de Bercher (21 March 1726 – 26 February 1796) was a Swiss amateur artist also known for her correspondence.
Born in Lausanne, Louise Polier de Corcelles was the daughter of David de Saussure, Baron de Bercher, a stockbroker and member of Lausanne's small council, who also served in the French army. Her mother was Angélique Mannlich de Bettens. She was a cousin of the family of Constant de Rebecque. Initially she fell in love with Philippe de Constant, a cousin, but due to local law was unable to marry him. Instead, aged 28, she married Étienne d’Aubonne, who died five years later. Jonathan Polier de Saint-Germain, sgr de Corcelles-le-Jorat, lieutenant baillival de Lausanne, became her second husband in 1767. The couple wintered in Lausanne, summering at the château de Corcelles-le-Jorat. Polier de Corcelles is noted as a pastellist by Isabelle de Charrière in some of her letters; she is also known for having decorated the private theater of her cousin the Marquis de Langallerie. Her correspondence with Salomon and Catherine de Charrière de Sévery has been published. [1] She was the granddaughter of Georges Mannelich. [2]
Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss-French political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion.
Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon was the daughter of Henri Jules de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and Anne Henriette of Bavaria. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, she was a princesse du sang. Forced to marry the Duke of Maine, legitimised son of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, she revelled in politics and the arts, and held a popular salon at the Hôtel du Maine as well as at the Château de Sceaux.
There are 300 municipalities in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland,. Vaud is the canton with the 2nd most municipalities.
Isabelle de Charrière, known as Belle van Zuylen in the Netherlands, née Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken, and [Madame] Isabelle de Charrière elsewhere, was a Dutch and Swiss writer of the Enlightenment who lived the latter half of her life in Colombier, Neuchâtel. She is now best known for her letters and novels, although she also wrote pamphlets, music and plays. She took a keen interest in the society and politics of her age, and her work around the time of the French Revolution is regarded as being of particular interest.
Corcelles-le-Jorat is a municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Marie Anne de Bourbon, Légitimée de France was the eldest legitimised daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his mistress Louise de La Vallière. She was the King's favourite daughter. At the age of thirteen, Marie Anne was married to her cousin Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti. The Princess of Conti was widowed in 1685 aged 19. She never married again and had no children. Following her mother's retirement to a convent, Marie Anne continued to reside at her father's court. When her mother died, she became the Duchess of La Vallière and inherited a considerable fortune.
Françoise Marie de Bourbon was the youngest illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan. At the age of 14, she was wed to her first cousin Philippe d'Orléans, future Regent of France during the minority of Louis XV. Through two of her eight children she became the ancestress of several of Europe's Roman Catholic monarchs of the 19th and 20th centuries, notably those of Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and France.
Jean Balissat was a composer, a professor of music and the conductor of various Swiss orchestras.
Louise Diane d'Orléans was Princess of Conti from her marriage to Prince Louis François in 1732, until her death in childbirth. She was the youngest child of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and Françoise Marie de Bourbon, the youngest legitimised daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his mistress Madame de Montespan. She was born while her father was the regent for Louis XV. Some sources referred to her as Louis Diane.
Louise Françoise, Duchess of Bourbon, was the eldest surviving legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. She was said to have been named after her godmother, Louise de La Vallière, the woman her mother had replaced as the king's mistress. Before her marriage, she was known at court as Mademoiselle de Nantes.
Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon was a daughter of Louis III de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and his wife, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, légitimée de France, a legitimised daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his famous mistress, Madame de Montespan.
Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de La Fayette, was a French marchioness. She was the daughter of Jean de Noailles and Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau, and married Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.
The House of La Fayette was a French family of Nobles of the Sword, from the province of Auvergne, established during the Middle-Age by the lords of the fief of La Fayette held by the senior branch of the Motier family.
Louise Anne de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Charolais was a French princess, the daughter of Louis III de Bourbon, Prince of Condé. Her father was the grandson of le Grand Condé, while her mother, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, was the eldest surviving legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan.
David-Louis, Baron de Constant de Rebecque, seigneur d'Hermenches and Villars-Mendraz, a.k.a. David-Louis Constant d'Hermenches was a colonel and commandant of a Swiss regiment in the Dutch Republic and Maréchal de camp in French service with Swiss regiments. He is also known for his contact with Voltaire and his correspondence with Isabelle de Charrière.
Louise Françoise de Bourbon was a granddaughter of Louis XIV of France and his mistress Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, better known as Madame de Montespan. Louise-Françoise was known as Mademoiselle du Maine and had no children.
Henriette Louise de Bourbon was a French princess by birth and a member of the House of Bourbon. She was the abbess of Beaumont-lès-Tours Abbey.
Rosalie de Constant, was a Swiss illustrator and naturalist.
Henriette Marie Françoise L'Hardy was a lady's companion from the Principality of Neuchâtel of the countess Sophie von Dönhoff, the Prussian lady-in-waiting and a morganatic spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia. She made a self-portrait.
Isabelle Morel was a French-speaking Swiss writer, translator and women of letters who was most notable for her novel Louise et Albert.