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    The Dame du Palais, originally only Dame, was a historical office in the Royal Court of France. It was a title of a lady-in-waiting holding the official...
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    Jeanne Charlotte du Luçay née Papillon d'Auteroche (1769-1842), was a French court official, Dame du Palais to Empress Joséphine and Dame d'atour to Empress...
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    French nobility. They were ranked between the Première dame d'honneur and the Dame du Palais. At least from Isabeau of Bavaria's tenure as queen, there...
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    Mary Thorne Dame du Palais: Louise Poitelon Dame du Palais: Nathalie de Ségur Dame du Palais: Claire Emilie Those of the dame du Palais rank were selected...
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    Durfort (1771-1838). In 1767, de Duras was appointed lady in waiting, Dame du Palais, to queen Marie Leszczynska to whom her mother served as chief lady-in-waiting...
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    royal household still distinguishes between Dames du Palais and Hofdames, but the category Dames du Palais is slated for discontinuation. The Grootmeesteres...
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    and the 'Dames' were renamed Dame du Palais. Thus, the title Dame d'honneur was henceforth reserved for one office holder. The task of the dame d'honneur...
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  • Dame d'honneur, or; The full, formal title for Dame du Palais, which until 1674 was formally called Dame d'honneur, though commonly shortened to Dame....
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  • in 1752, and count Jean-Balthazar d'Adhémar in 1772. Gabrielle was dame du palais (lady-in-waiting) to Queen Marie Leszczyńska in 1764–1768, and to Queen...
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    European royal courts (Dutch: Dames du Palais; French: Dames or Dame de Palais; German: Hofstaatsdame or Palastdame; Italian: Dame di Corte; Russian: Hofdame...
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    (27 October 1773, in Besançon – 1833?) was a French lady-in-waiting (Dame du Palais). She was famous for her affair with the French Emperor Napoleon, which...
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    (1782–1860), was a French court official. She served as lady-in-waiting (Dame du Palais) to Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais in 1804–1810, and to Empress Marie...
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    Pierre Bachasson de Montalivet in 1797. She served as lady-in-waiting (Dame du Palais) to Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais in 1804-1809, and to Empress Marie...
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    noble, memoirist and court official. She served as lady-in-waiting (Dame du Palais) to queen Marie Antoinette of France from 1782 to 1792. Her memoirs...
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    her mother died and Louise Julie replaced her as lady-in-waiting, Dame du Palais, to the queen and became first the mistress to the Marquis de Puysieux...
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    de Flavacourt, in 1739. The marriage was unhappy. She was appointed dame du palais to the popular Queen Marie Leszczynska in 1742, the same year her sister...
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    Richelieu, and Louise Julie was forced to leave court and her post of Dame du Palais to the popular Queen Marie Leszczyńska. Throughout the war over the...
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    Louise Victoire Sophie Goyons Matignon. In 1762, de Chimay was appointed dame du palais, the same position her mother served in as to Marie Leszczynska. When...
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    Nanna van Loon-Egidius (15 March 1865 – 6 December 1945) was a Dutch dame du palais, comparable to a lady-in-waiting, of Queen Wilhelmina. Thora Egidius...
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    The Louvre Palace (French: Palais du Louvre, [palɛ dy luvʁ]), often referred to simply as the Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Right...
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  • service. Widowed in 1690. She returned to the court and was 1692-1712 dame du palais in the year Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, whose personal friend she became; when...
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    Louise Poitelon du Tarde, vicomtesse de Lezay-Marnésia (1826–1891), was a French courtier. She served as lady-in-waiting (dame de Palais) to the empress...
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    The Luxembourg Palace (French: Palais du Luxembourg, pronounced [palɛ dy lyksɑ̃buʁ]) is at 15 Rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France...
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  • accepted by her husband and raised as his daughter. She was appointed dame du palais to the charitable Queen Marie Leszczyńska in 1727 and became one of...
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    l'architecture. (fr) Esprit(s) des lieux: Du Trocadéro au palais de Chaillot, Paris, Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine and Archives nationales, 2011...
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    The screened entrance court faces the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the Louvre. Originally called the Palais-Cardinal, it was built for Cardinal Richelieu...
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    She married at sixteen, and was attached to the Empress Josephine as dame du palais in 1802. Talleyrand was among her admirers, and she was generally regarded...
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    d'Essling; a Dame d'honneur or deputy, the Duchesse de Bassano, who both attended court on grand functions; and six (later twelve) Dame du Palais, who were...
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    d'Essling; a Dame d'honneur or deputy, the Duchesse de Bassano, who both attended court on grand functions; and six (later twelve) Dame du Palais, who were...
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    Gabrielle de Rochechouart, dame de Lansac (27 October 1530 – 1580), was a lady-in-waiting, a Dame d'honneur or Dame du Palais to Catherine de' Medici. She...
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