Francoise Pauline de La Rochefoucauld,
Mademoiselle de Roye, Marquise de Severac (1723-1793)
Born 7 March 1723
Died 1793 (guillotine)
Married 29 February 1740
Louis Antoine de Gontaut-Biron, Duc de Biron, son of
Charles Armand de Gontaut-Biron, Duc de Biron and Marie
Antoinette de Bautru
Born 2 February 1701
Died 29 October 1788 Paris
According to the Duc de Luynes she was shy and lacking in confidence
but had beautiful eyes. She was almost seventeen years old when, on
29
February 1740, she married Louis Antoine de Gontaut-Biron, Duc de
Biron. Her husband was a distinguished soldier and his funeral she
regarded as the most important ceremony of its kind before the
collapse of the old order in France. Francoise Pauline de La
Rochefoucauld, Duchesse de Biron, was guillotined on the 9th Messidor,
Second Year of the revolution in 1793, with Messidor running from the
20th June to the 19th July. She was guillotined at the same time as
her niece, Amelie de Boufflers, Duchesse de Lauzun.
Source: Leo van de Pas
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