Valentine de Sainte-Aldegonde

Marie Valentine Joséphine de Sainte- Aldegonde (* May 29, 1820 in Paris, † September 23, 1891 ibid ) was a French noblewoman and by marriage Duchess of Dino.

Life

Marie Joséphine Valentine was the only daughter of Camille de Sainte- Aldegonde, comte Sainte- Aldegonde (1787-1853) and his wife Adélaïde Josephine de Bourlon Chavange ( 1789-1869 ). She received a comprehensive and excellent education, spoke several languages ​​and was reflected in literature, music and painting interested.

On October 8, 1839 Valentine de Sainte- Aldegonde married at Château de Beauregard in Loir -et -Cher, the aristocrat Alexandre -Edmond de Talleyrand -Perigord, Duc de Dino ( 1813-1894 ), youngest son of the Countess Dorothea von Sagan and Count Edmond de Talleyrand -Périgord, a nephew of the French Foreign Minister Charles -Maurice de Talleyrand. From the marriage, which by all accounts was unhappy, went four children:

  • Clémentine Marie Wilhelmine (1841-1881), Count Alexandre Orlovsky
  • Charles Maurice Camille (1843-1917), 4th Duc de Dino and 2nd Marquis de Talleyrand
  • Elisabeth Alexandrine Florence (1844-1880) Hans Eduard Franz Carl Anna role, Count of Oppersdorff
  • Anatole Paul Archambault (1845-1918), 3rd Marquis de Talleyrand

The couple had quite different types of characters and often lived apart. Valentine was more cheerful and sociable - he rather closed - and began to get bored with it. After the birth of her fourth child, she separated from her husband and moved to Italy. In Florence, she met the Russian industrialist Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1813-1870) know and love. Against the wishes of his wife Mathilde Laetitia Wilhelmine Bonaparte (1820-1904), a cousin of the Emperor Napoleon III. , He continued the love affair with Valentine. Mathilde then left Florence with her lover Alfred de Émilien Nieuwerkerke and the jewelry collection of her husband. A protracted dispute over the return of the jewels and the relationship with the Duchess of Dino filled the society columns of the newspapers.

After the death of her partner Valentine de Talleyrand -Périgord returned to France, where she died in 1891 of a heart attack. She was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

In its various stages of life was her name

  • Noble
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1820
  • Died in 1891
  • Woman
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
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