Anne Claudine Louise d'Arpajon (4 March 1729 in Arpajon, France - 27 June 1794 at Barrière du Trône, Paris [1]) was a French noble and first lady of honor to Queens Maria Leszczyńska and Marie Antoinette. She was called "Madame Etiquette" by Marie Antoinette for her insistence that no minutia of court etiquette ever be altered or disregarded.
Her father, Louis de Sévérac, Marquis d'Arpajon-sur-Cère (1667-1736), bought the Marquisat of Saint-Germain-lès-Châtres in 1720, and was granted permission by Philippe d'Orléans (régent for Louis XV), to rename it Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon, and its seat Arpajon. [2] Her mother, Anne Charlotte Le Bas de Montargis, was lady in waiting to the duchesse de Berry. Anne Claudine married Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, Captain of the Hunts at Versailles, on 27 November 1741.
Their children:
She and her husband Philippe were guillotined on June 27th 1794. On 22 July 1794, the widow, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter of Philippe's brother Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, were guillotined. Louis's other granddaughter, Adrienne, wife of the Marquis de Lafayette, was saved by the intervention of America's Minister to France, James Monroe. [3] They and the other nobles who died at the guillotine are buried at Picpus Cemetery; it is also the final resting place of the Marquis and Marquise de Lafayette. [4]
Her son Louis-Marie may have helped to seal his wife's and parents' fates by launching the "orgy" at the Estates-General, which abolished all privileges; he also proposed the abolition of titles and liveries. Louis-Marie and Philippe-Louis-Marc-Antoine were also members of the National Constituent Assembly.
Anne d'Arpajon was played by Judy Davis in Marie Antoinette.
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