Duchesse de polignac biography
Duchesse de polignac biography
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Yolande de Polastron
French aristocrat and courtier (1749–1793)
Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac (8 September 1749 – 9 December 1793) was the favourite of Marie Antoinette, whom she met when she was presented at the Palace of Versailles in 1775, the year after Marie Antoinette became the Queen of France.
She was considered one of the great beauties of pre-Revolutionary society, but her extravagance and exclusivity earned her many enemies.[1][2]
Biography
Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron was born in Paris in the reign of King Louis XV.
Her parents were Jean François Gabriel, Count of Polastron, seigneur de Noueilles, Venerque and Grépiac (1722-1794), who served as French ambassador to Switzerland, and his wife, Jeanne Charlotte Hérault de Vaucresson (1726-1753).
As was customary with aristocrats, most of whom bore more than one Christian name, she was generally known by the last of her names (Gabrielle).&#