Yolande de Polastron
French aristocrat and courtier (1749-1793) · France · Died at 44
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Something wrong?Marie Antoinette's closest friend at Versailles, whose taste for luxury and tightly guarded access made her a lightning rod for the resentments gathering around the queen in the years before the Revolution.
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Duchess of Polignac by E.Vigee-Lebrun (1787, Atheneum)
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Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun - La duchesse de Polignac coiffée d'un chapeau de paille (1782) - Wadsworth Atheneum
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Gabrielle de Polastron Duchess of Polignac
Benjamin Franklin's Reception at the Court of France 1778
Cabanès, Éducation de Princes015 La Duchesse de Polignac, Gouvernante des Enfants de France
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Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron was presented at the Palace of Versailles in 1775, a year after Marie Antoinette became Queen of France. The two women formed an immediate and intense bond that would define both their lives. Celebrated as one of the great beauties of pre-Revolutionary society, Yolande became the Duchess of Polignac and enjoyed extraordinary favor at court. But her extravagance and the exclusivity she cultivated around the queen earned her many enemies among the nobility and beyond. She died on 9 December 1793, the same year the Revolution claimed Marie Antoinette herself.
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