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Henriette Deluzy-Desportes[a] (1813–1875) was a French governess who was the subject of a scandal with Charles Laure Hugues Théobald, duc de Choiseul-Praslin. The scandal played a role in bringing down the King of France.[3] The story of her life in Paris was the basis for a book written by her great niece and made into the movie All This, and Heaven Too starring Bette Davis in 1940.
She traveled to New York City in 1848 and was hired as a schoolteacher. In 1851, she married a minister Henry Martyn Field from Stockbridge, Massachusetts and was then known as Henriette Desportes Field.
She was a member of the School of Design for Women at Cooper Union's Advisory Council from 1859, when it was founded, until her death. She was principal of the art department in the early 1860s. She exhibited her works of art at the National Academy of Design. The Fields hosted eminent writers and artists at their home in Gramercy Park, Manhattan. Some of their regular guests were Harriet Beecher Stowe and Peter Cooper.
- ^ Wright 1942, p. 6.
- ^ Wright 1942, p. 9.
- ^ "Henriette Desportes Leaves the Scandals of Paris for a Stockbridge Minister". New England Historical Society. 2021 [December 11, 2016]. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
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