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La Rochefoucauld, Marie-Adélaïde de La Touche-Limouzinière, comtesse de

Marie-Adélaïde de La Touche-Limouzinière, comtesse de La Rochefoucauld

Born

5 March 1760

Died

24 January 1794

Born in the Antilles and married at Nantes in 1778 to a naval captain who emigrated in 1791, the comtesse de La Rochefoucauld remained in the Vendée with her two sons, near the house where Charette lived. In the first days of the insurrection she put herself at the head of a gathering and seized the town of La Garnache, from which the insurgents called her Madame de la Garnache. She was afterwards received by Charette at Legé and is generally said to have been his mistress. Straying from the army’s line of march, she was arrested at Dompierre-sur-Yon in January 1794 and tried at Les Sables-d’Olonne, where she denied having borne arms. She was shot on the dunes on 24 January, the guillotine there being out of order.

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