Biographies : 2
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BiographyFOURES, Pauline, née Marguerite-Pauline BELLISLE
Stendhal or real life? If we are to believe Frédéric Masson, then the truth of the life-story of Pauline Fourès is indeed stranger than fiction. Born in southern France, 15 March, 1778, the daughter of clockmaker Henri-Jacques-Clément Bellisle and his wife Marguerite Barandon, Pauline worked initially as a milliner before coming to the attentions of […]
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BiographyMENEVAL, Claude François
Meneval, Napoleon's closest collaborator for eleven years, was born in Paris, on 8 April 1778, at 19, rue des Marais Saint-Germain which became, in 1864, rue Visconti (6th arrondissement), near rue Bonaparte… and the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. He was born into a middle-class family whose name was variously spelt Meneval, Menneval and even Mennevalle. The […]