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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 778 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTESSON, See also:CHARLOTTE JEANNE BERAUD DE LA HAYE DE See also:RIOU, MARQUISE DE (1737-1805) , was See also:born in See also:Paris of an old See also:Breton See also:family. About 1754 she married See also:Jean See also:Baptiste, See also:marquis de Montesson, who died in 1769. Her beauty and intelligence attracted the See also:attention of See also:Louis Philippe, See also:duke of See also:Orleans, whom she secretly married in 1773 with the authorization of the See also:king. For her See also:husband's amusement she set up a little See also:theatre and wrote several plays, in the acting of which she herself took See also:part. She was imprisoned for some See also:time during the Terror, but was released after the fall of See also:Robespierre, became the friend of the empress See also:Josephine, and was a prominent figure at the beginning of the See also:empire. The best edition of her See also:works appeared under the See also:title of Gfuvres anonymes in 1782-1785. See' See also:Charles Colle, See also:Journal (1868); the See also:Memoirs of St See also:Simon, Madame de See also:Genlis, the duchesse d'See also:Abrantes and Mme de See also:Levis; G. Strenger, " La Societe de la marquise de Montesson," in the Nouvelle revue (1902); J. '1'urquan, Madame de Montesson douairiere d'Orleans (Paris, 1904) ; and G. Capon and R. Ive-Plessis, See also:Les Theatres clandestins du xviii' siecle (1904).

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