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Sapinaud de Boishuguet, Jeanne-Michelle-Ambroise Talour de La Cartrie de

Jeanne-Michelle-Ambroise Talour de La Cartrie de Sapinaud de Boishuguet

Born

17 August 1736

Died

1 May 1820

Married in 1764 into the Sapinaud family that commanded the army of the Centre, and sister-in-law of Louis Sapinaud de La Verrie, Madame de Sapinaud was widowed and in her late fifties when the war began. Her children crossed the Loire with the Grande Armée in October 1793 and she did not see them again during the war. She remained south of the Loire and was hunted for some eighteen months, hiding in peasant houses and going in rags, and recorded hearing the republicans calling after her to surrender. Her two manuscript narratives, published in part by her son in 1820 and in full only in 2014, are among the earliest royalist accounts of the war and are valued as testimony to the columns rather than as military history. She died in 1820.

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