Henriette Lucie Dillon La Tour du Pin Gouvernet

Who was Henriette Lucie Dillon La Tour du Pin Gouvernet?

Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin-Gouvernet, was a French aristocrat famous for her memoirs entitled Journal d'une femme de 50 ans. The memoirs are a first-hand account of her life through the Ancien Regime, the French Revolution, and the Imperial court of Napoleon, ending in March 1815 with Napoleon’s return from exile on Elba. Madame de la Tour du Pin, as she is frequently called, was a witness to the private lives of the royals, and her memoirs serve as unique testimony to much unchronicled history.