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La Bouëre, Antoinette-Charlotte Le Duc, comtesse de

Antoinette-Charlotte Le Duc, comtesse de La Bouëre

Born

8 June 1770

Died

9 September 1867

Married in 1789 to Armand-Modeste de Gazeau, comte de La Bouëre, and settled at Jallais in the Mauges, the comtesse de La Bouëre lived through the whole war in the country between Angers, Cholet and Nantes, in hiding and constantly on the move, her house burned by one of Turreau’s columns. Her account, written long afterwards and published by her daughter-in-law in 1890, is less a narrative of battles than a chronicle of civilian survival, of requisition and concealment and of the daily life of the women of the bocage, and it is generally ranked second only to the marquise de La Rochejaquelein’s among the Vendéan memoirs. She survived her husband by twenty years and died at Jallais in 1867, aged ninety-seven.

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