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Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville
1818May, 25

Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville

Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville, French essayist and biographer (d. 1882)
Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville (25 May 1818 – 21 April 1882) was a French essayist and biographer, and a member of the House of Broglie, a distinguished French family. A granddaughter of the novelist Germaine de Staël, she was considered independent, liberal, and outspoken. Her 1845 portrait by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, which took three years to complete, has been exhibited in the Frick Collection in New York City since the 1930s.

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    Trial by battle

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