Cathérine Hübscher
Catherine Lefebvre ( born February 2, 1753, Goldbach - Altenbach, Haut-Rhin as Catherine Pretty, † December 29, 1835 in Paris) was a native of Alsace laundress and by marriage, she managed to climb the social ladder and received by her husband the title " Duchess of Danzig". She was known as Madame Sans - Gêne (Fr. = without embarrassment ) by the same play by Victorien Sardou.
Life
Pretty Catherine came from a modest and earned her living as a laundress in Saint -Amarin and Oderen. On March 1, 1783, she married François -Joseph Lefebvre ( 1755-1820 ), son of a police sergeant to Rouffach in Alsace. From their marriage, fourteen children were born, of whom only a son reached adulthood.
Her husband supported Napoléon Bonaparte coup d'état of the 18th Brumaire - by Madame Lefebvre rose as the wife of Napoleon's Generals on in Parisian society. In 1800, the First Consul of the French Republic, and then to 1814 Emperor of the French attention to Madame Lefebvre was - her charm and wit charmed him. Maybe he was there also important that they not interested in politics and court intrigues avoided. But they distrusted Joséphine de Beauharnais, and Caroline Bonaparte, with whom she married a year-long bitter rivalry.
Madame Lefebvre died on December 29, 1835 at the age of 82 years from cancer and was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. She was in the French people very popular and popular - because she had never forgotten their origins and participating was to the social need of people.