Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart

Anne de Rochechouart
Anne de Rochechouart
Duchess of Uzès
	Duchesse d'Uzès c. 1896
Born	Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clémentine de Rochechouart; 10 February 1847; Paris, France
Died	3 February 1933 (aged 85); Dampierre-en-Yvelines, France
Nationality	French
Spouse(s)	Emmanuel de Crussol; (m. 1867; died 1878)
Issue	Jacques Marie Géraud; Louis Emmanuel; Simone Louise Laure; Mathilde Renée
Father	Louis de Rochechouart, Count of Mortemart
Mother	Marie Clémentine de Chevigné

Anne de Rochechouart (Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clémentine; 10 February 1847 – 3 February 1933),^[1] was a wealthy French aristocrat. She inherited a large fortune from her great-grandmother, the founder of the Veuve Clicquot Champagne house. She was known for her involvement in feminist causes and charities, politics, sport hunting, automobiles and the arts, and was an accomplished author and sculptor, the latter using the name Manuela.

^ "DUCHESS D'DZES IS DEAD IS PARIS; Famous Dowager, Long Leader of French Society, Aided Move to-Restore Throne. ACTIVE IN MANY FIELDS A Sculptor, Novelist, Dramatist and Patron of the Arts, She Was Always a Glamorous Figure". The New York Times. 4 February 1933. Retrieved 26 June 2020.

[1933Obit-1] "DUCHESS D'DZES IS DEAD IS PARIS; Famous Dowager, Long Leader of French Society, Aided Move to-Restore Throne. ACTIVE IN MANY FIELDS A Sculptor, Novelist, Dramatist and Patron of the Arts, She Was Always a Glamorous Figure". The New York Times. 4 February 1933. Retrieved 26 June 2020.

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