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