![]() Marie-Aurore then retired with a servant to the English convent at Fossés Saint-Victor street in Paris. On 22 October 1775 at Paris, Marie Rinteau died aged 45. Then, Marie-Aurore returned to live with her mother, Marie Rinteau. She turned initially to Voltaire, an admirer of her father, who recommended that she approach the Countess of Choiseul, but this was unsuccessful. Deprived of her protector, the pension that Marie-Aurore received didn't cover her expenses. Maria Josepha of Saxony died on 13 March 1767 at Versailles. Louis-Claude Dupin de Francueil, Marie-Aurore's second husband. The Dauphine placed Marie-Aurore in an institution for young girls, firstly at the Ursuline convent in Saint-Cloud and later in the Maison royale de Saint-Louis in Saint-Cyr, founded by Madame de Maintenon. įollowing the death of the Count of Friesen, Marie-Aurore (aged 7) was separated from her mother by command of the Dauphine. King Louis XV granted her a pension of 800 livres. A petition was addressed to the Dauphine, Maria Josepha of Saxony, a niece of the Marshal, the same year in favor of Marie-Aurore, proving her existence and ensuring her education. One of the nephews of the Marshal de Saxe, the Count of Friesen, known in France under the name of Comte de Frise, who inherited property from the Marshal, provided financial help to Marie-Aurore, but his death in 1755 deprived her of all support. The latter spent generously on her, and installed her, along with her sister, in the Quartier d'Auteuil. Marie-Aurore's mother later had love affairs with Jean-François Marmontel and the fermier général, Denis Joseph Lalive d'Épinay. Petition sent in the name of Marie-Aurore to the Dauphine, born Maria Josepha of Saxony, 1755.
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