Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine
Louise-Marie-Madeleine Guillaume de Fontaine (after marriage known as Madame Dupin; 28 October 1706 – 20 November 1799) was a French "saloniste".
Marie-Louise-Élisabeth de Lamoignon de Molé de Champlâtreux
On 9 February 1779 she married the politician Édouard-François Mathieu Molé (05.03.1760-20.04.1794) who came from an esteemed noble household. Her new husband supported her desire for a simple life in service to the poor and the poor soon came to call her the "Angel of the Garrets". Her spiritual director at the time was Father Antoine Xavier Mayneaud de Pancemont and the two often corresponded in secret due to the simmering anti-religious sentiment at the time more so due to the French Revolution. He had dissuaded her from entering a religious order after she became widowed. The couple had five children together but two reached adulthood:
Her husband decided to move to Brussels in 1791 so all went there but had to return to their native land in January 1792 due to a new law that had been passed regarding immigration. Her husband's noble house soon suffered a steep decline for he was arrested on 19 August 1792 though released in September before being arrested again in October 1793. He was again released but was arrested for the last time in January 1794. The Revolutionary Tribunal condemned him to death on Easter Sunday on 20 April 1794 and he died at the guillotine mere hours later. Lamoignon herself even shared one of these incarcerations with her husband at the Fontaine Grenelle prison though she and her children were also under surveillance due to the state's suspicions of her husband. Her husband's final arrest saw him jailed in the Conciergerie in Paris.