Aimée du Buc de Rivéry

Aimée du Buc de RIVERY ( born December 19, 1768 in Trois -Ilets to Fort -de -France in Martinique; † August 28, 1817 in Istanbul) was a French noblewoman, mistress of Sultan Abdulhamid I and Valide Sultan ( 1808-1817 ).

Life

Aimée du Buc de RIVERY was the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner on the island of Martinique, as well as a cousin ( second degree ) of Joséphine de Beauharnais ( 1763-1814 ), later Empress of the French. After Aimée was sent to a convent school to Nantes, they should go back home in 1781 by ship. On the way the ship was attacked and sunk by Ottoman pirates. Aimée du Buc de RIVERY was enslaved and later sent as a gift from the Bey of Algiers to the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul.

Aimée came into the harem of the Sultan Abdulhamid I. (1725-1789) and is the name Nakşidil ( Nakshidil ) have adopted. This new life was so strange, that they threatened to break with longing for their homeland Aimée. Tulip, one of the eunuchs had therefore their adopted and carefully introduced into the world of the harem. In order to remind them of their homeland to the Sultan have set up a few rooms in the Topkapi Palace in an elegant French rococo style. From the relationship with the sultan a son had emerged, later Sultan Mahmud II ( 1785-1839 ).

They also said to have been responsible for ensuring that the Ottoman Empire maintained a permanent embassy in Paris.

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