Where was Louise-Marie-Madeleine Guillaume de Fontaine born?
Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine
Louise de Fontaine was born in Paris, in the parish of Saint-Roch, on 28 October 1706. Her baptism act was as follows:
Marie van Goethem
In 1865, the year Marie was born, the family moved to a stone apartment building on 'Rue Notre-Dame de Lorette' called 'Place Bréda' near Degas's studio on 'Rue Saint-Georges'. The Bréda district was one of the city's poorest and most squalid areas for prostitution. In 1880, after frequently changing their place of residence (an indicator of an inability to pay the rent on time) the family settled on 'Rue de Douai' on the lower slopes of Montmartre, a few blocks from Degas's studio, then located on 'Rue Fontaine'.
Guillaume Poyet
Guillaume Poyet (c. 1473 – April 1548) was a French magistrate born in Angers. After practising successfully as a barrister at Angers and Paris, he was instructed by Louise of Savoy, mother of the king Francis I, to uphold her rights against the constable de Bourbon in 1521. This was the beginning of his fortunes. Through the influence of the queen-mother he obtained the posts of advocate-general (1530) and president of the parliament of Paris (1534), and became chancellor of France in 1538. He was responsible for the legal reform contained in the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts (1539), the object of which was to shorten procedure. This ordered the keeping of registers of baptisms and deaths, and enjoined the exclusive use of the French language in legal procedure. With the constable de Montmorency he organized an intrigue to ruin Admiral Chabot, and procured his condemnation in 1541; but after the admiral was pardoned, Poyet was himself thrown into prison, deprived of his offices, and sentenced to a fine of 100,000 livres.
Louise of France (1737–1787)
Louise-Marie of France was born at Versailles on 15 July 1737. Her birth was particularly difficult for her mother, who was advised by her physicians that another birth could be fatal. After this, the queen discontinued sexual relations with the king by refusing him entrance to her bedroom. Not long after this Louis XV, with approval of his minister Cardinal de Fleury, officially acknowledged his first favorite, Louise Julie de Mailly, and the private relationship between the king and queen was discontinued and they started to live separate lives. The king openly announced this after the birth of Louise when he called her "Madame Dernière" ('Madame the Last').
Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans
Louise Élisabeth was born at the Palace of Versailles. She was the eldest of the surviving children of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France, and of his wife Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, a legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France. She was given the honorary title of "Mademoiselle d'Orléans" at birth. After her marriage the title would be given to her younger sister Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans. She was baptised at Saint-Cloud on 29 July 1696.
Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels
Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels, or Louise-Madeleine Hortemels, also called Magdeleine Horthemels (1686 – 2 October 1767), was a French engraver, the mother of Charles-Nicolas Cochin. She is also sometimes credited under her married name of Louise Madeleine Cochin or Madeleine Cochin.
Princess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg
Princess Marie-Adélaïde of Luxembourg (Marie-Adélaïde Louise Thérèse Wilhelmine; 21 May 1924 – 28 February 2007) was a Luxembourgish princess, the third child and the second daughter of Grand Duchess Charlotte (1896–1985) and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (1893–1970).
Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon
Françoise d'Aubigné was born on 27 November 1635, but her place of birth is speculative. A plaque suggests her birthplace was at the Hotel du Chaumont in Niort, in western France. Some sources indicate she may have been born in or just outside the prison at Niort because her father, the Huguenot Constant d'Aubigné, was incarcerated there for conspiring against Cardinal Richelieu. Her mother, Jeanne de Cardilhac, was the daughter of Constant's jailer. Her grandfather was Agrippa d'Aubigné, a well-known Protestant General, a former intimate servant of Henry IV, and an epic poet. Jeanne had her child baptised in her own Catholic religion; the young girl's godparents were Suzanne de Baudéan, the daughter of the Comtesse de Neuillant and the governor of Niort; and the Duc de la Rochefoucauld, father of François de La Rochefoucauld, author of the famous "Maxims". Suzanne would later go to serve Anne of Austria and Maria Theresa, the first wife of Louis XIV.
Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine
On 29 November 1722 was signed the marriage contract and the religious ceremony was celebrated on 1 December in the Church of Saint-Roch. Thanks to the support of his father-in-law, Claude Dupin became part of the "Ferme générale" on 1 October 1726, after he sold his office in Châteauroux. Samuel Bernard obtain this new post for his protégé, for a total of 500,000 livres. The banker abandoned the debt a few years later, and providing the couple with the cancellation of any acknowledgment of debt. On 24 December 1728 Dupin bought the post of "Councillor-Secretary of the King, House and Crown of France and finances". This acquisition allows him to be accepted as part of the nobility in the first degree, with his offspring.
Joseph-Éloi Fontaine
He was born in Beloeil, Canada East, the son of Charles Fontaine, and was educated in Marieville. He served on the town council for Hull from 1904 to 1908 and was mayor in 1909 and 1910. He also served as chairman of the Hull Board of Trade and chairman of the Medical Board of the Hull Hospital. Fontaine was elected as a Laurier Liberal in 1917.
Jeanne Douste
Douste's parents were natives of the French Pyrenees, but she was born in London on 4 December, 1872. Neither her father nor her mother possessed any musical ability, but Douste had scarcely attained the age of four when she began to imitate on the piano that which she heard her elder sister play. For some time she played entirely by ear, without any knowledge of music; she actually performed, by heart, Mozart's pianoforte concertos at the Royal Aquarium Concerts, then under the direction of George Mount, with full orchestral accompaniments. It seems, however, that shortly after this period, Douste met with Henri-Louis-Stanislas Mortier de Fontaine, who, noticing the musical instinct of the child, volunteered to take charge of her artistic education. This artist was a friend and pupil of the Frederic Chopin.
Magdeleine-Marie Desgarcins
Magdeleine-Marie Desgarcins (1769 at Mont-Dauphin (Hautes Alpes)27 October 1797 in Paris) was a French actress. Her stage name was Louise Desgarcins or Madame Desgarcins.
Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon (1757–1824)
Henriette was the Benedictine abbess of Beaumont-lès-Tours (a former commune of Indre-et-Loire). Due to her convent education, almost all of Louise Adélaïde's youth was spent in a religious setting. Her education was completed at the royal abbey of Bernardine Panthémont, located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. In 1780, Mademoiselle de Condé requested permission to leave the convent of Panthémont. It was at this time that she built the Hôtel de Bourbon-Condé for her personal use, her father still retaining the grand Palais Bourbon built by his grandmother, Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, as his principal residence in Paris. Considerations of rank prevented her from marriage. In 1786, she was appointed Abbess of Remiremont. She did not, however, visit Remiremont more than three times during her period in office
Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine
Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine (6 January 1787 – 11 February 1871) was a Luxembourgish politician and jurist. He led the Orangist movement and was the first Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for four months, from 1 August 1848 until 6 December of the same year.
Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont
Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont was born in Versailles in 1790.
She studied painting under Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (1750–1819), who supplemented his income as an artist by teaching drawing to young women.
In 1812 de Valenciennes was appointed a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts, which did not admit women.
During the time of the First French Empire she was encouraged by Joséphine de Beauharnais.
After the restoration of the monarchy she became a protegee of the Duchess of Berry.
Alexis Fontaine des Bertins
Fontaine was born in Claveyson. He first got a taste for maths by reading the "Géométrie de l'infini" of Fontenelle and gave solutions to the problems of the tautochrone curve, the brachistochrone curve and orthogonal trajectories. 
He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences in 1733. He died, aged 67, in Cuiseaux.
Lilian Fontaine
Lilian Augusta Fontaine (née Ruse, formerly de Havilland; 11 June 1886 – 20 February 1975) was an English actress and mother of Academy Award-winning American actresses Dame Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine.
Louise Élisabeth of France
She was put in the care of Marie Isabelle de Rohan, "duchesse de Tallard". Élisabeth was raised at Versailles with her twin, Henriette, their younger sisters Marie-Louise, Marie Adélaïde, and their brother, the Dauphin. Her younger sisters, Victoire, Sophie, Therese and Louise-Marie, however, were sent to be raised in the Abbey of Fontevraud in June 1738.
Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans
At birth, she was put in the care of "Madame de Sourcy" and, as was the custom for many girls of the nobility, she was later raised at the Abbaye de Montmartre convent, overlooking Paris, where she spent twelve years. As a child, she was encouraged to take an active part in the charities for which her father had become known as "Prince of the Poor". His reputation for made him popular throughout France and, subsequently, saved him during the Revolution.
Alain-Marie Guynot de Boismenu
Alain-Marie Guynot de Boismenu was born in France on 27 December 1870 in Saint-Malo to François Célestin Guynot de Boismenu (1821-1884) and Augustine Marie Desessarts (1831-11.1.1871) as the last of eleven children (eight males and three females); his parents were married on 23 May 1843. His siblings included his brother Eugène (1858-???) and his sisters Héloïse (1860-13.3.1923) and Louise (15.12.1863-???) His mother died just over a week following his birth on 11 January 1871 at which stage his oldest sister Augustine helped to raise him. He was noted in his childhood for being passionate but having a short temper which sometimes put him in conflict with his father and Augustine whom he felt was sometimes too strict with him.
Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul
Sisters Marie-Madeleine Fontaine, Marie-Françoise Lanel, Thérèse Fantou, and Jeanne Gérard from the House of Charity in Arras were guillotined in Cambrai 26 June 1794. Waiting for the cart to take them to the guillotine, the guards took their chaplets and, not knowing what to do, put them on their heads like a crown. They were beatified on 13 June 1920. Their feast day is June 26.
Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon
Louise Élisabeth was born on 22 November 1693, at the Palace of Versailles. As a member of the House of Bourbon-Condé, she was a "princesse du sang". In youth, she was known at court as "Mademoiselle de Charolais", a style later borne by her younger sister. Her parents' second daughter, and third child, she was one of nine children. She was baptised in the chapel of Versailles on 24 November 1698 with her brother Louis Henri and her sister Louise Anne.
Louise-Félicité de Kéralio
Louise-Félicité Guynement de Kéralio (19 January 1757 in Valence, Drôme – 31 December 1821 in Brussels) was a French writer and translator, originating from the minor Breton nobility. Her father was Louis-Félix Guynement de Kéralio who had served as tutor to the Prince of Parma together with Condillac and taught at the École Militaire until 1776. Her mother was Françoise Abeille. She was present at the court of Versailles between October 1777 and April 1782. She married Pierre-François-Joseph Robert, a politician, revolutionary and secretary to Georges Danton.
Louise de Coligny
Louise was born at Châtillon-sur-Loing. Her parents saw to it that she received a humanist education. 
When she was sixteen, she married Protestant Charles de Téligny (1571). Both he and her father were murdered at the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. Like her murdered father, she was a French Huguenot and after the massacre (August 1572 -Paris), she spent ten years in the Swiss Confederacy.
Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon
Louise Françoise was born in Tournai on 1 June 1673 while her parents, King Louis XIV and Françoise-Athénais de Rochechouart were on a military tour; her maternal aunt, the marquise de Thianges, was there also. After returning from Tournai, her parents placed her and her older siblings in the care of one of her mother's acquaintances, the widowed Madame Scarron.
Françoise Marie de Bourbon
The next of her daughters to marry was the youngest. Louise Diane, the favourite of Madame, was engaged to the young Louis François de Bourbon, "Prince of Conti" whom she married at Versailles. Louise died in childbirth at the Château d'Issy. Louise Diane's only surviving child was the last Prince of Conti, who would later marry Princess Maria Fortunata of Modena. Maria Fortunata was one of the daughters of the wayward Charlotte Aglaé, who was 
Françoise Marie's most difficult daughter. She returned from Modena in a self-imposed exile many a time and Françoise Marie and her son Louis chose to ignore her when she did. She returned to Modena in 1737 as the Sovereign Duchess Consort.
Louise de Maisonblanche
Born in Paris in 1676, she was one of many illegitimate children that Louis XIV had. She was officially declared "daughter of Philippe de Maisonblanche, old Captain of the Guards, and of Lady Gabrielle de La Tour, his spouse." Brought up in Paris by her mother, she did not receive the same attention that the daughters of Madame de Montespan and Louise de La Vallière did. She lived for a while at the château de Suisnes where her mother died in 1687 aged 50. Louise was then put in the care of François Le Signerre and her sister Catherine Le Signerre in Mulcent.
Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes
Born in Niort (Deux-Sèvres), he belonged to a noble Protestant family of Languedoc which had been reduced to poverty by the revocation of the edict of Nantes. His father and grandfather remained Protestant, but he was himself brought up as a Catholic. His parents died in 1774–1775, and in 1777 Fontanes went to Paris, where he found a friend in the dramatist Jean-François Ducis.
Adélaïde d'Orléans
Louise Marie "Adélaïde" Eugénie d'Orléans (Paris, 23 August 1777 – Paris, 31 December 1847) was a French princess, one of the twin daughters of Philippe d'Orléans, known as "Philippe Égalité" during the French Revolution, and Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon. She was titled "Mademoiselle de Chartres" at birth, "Mademoiselle d'Orléans" at the death of her twin sister in 1782, "Mademoiselle" (1783–1812), "Madame Adélaïde" (1830). As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, she was a "princesse du sang".
Louise d'Épinay
Louise d'Épinay was born at the fortress of Valenciennes, where her father, Tardieu d'Esclavelles, a brigadier of infantry, was commanding officer. After her father was killed in battle when she was ten, she was sent to Paris in the care of an aunt who was married to Louis-Denis de La Live de Bellegarde, an immensely wealthy "fermier-général", a collector-general of taxes; treated to the stultifying education that was a girl's lot, in 1745 she married her cousin Denis Joseph de La Live d'Épinay, who was made a "fermier-général". The marriage was at once an unhappy one; and the prodigality, dissipation and infidelities of her husband justified her in obtaining a formal separation of assets in May 1749. She settled in the Château of La Chevrette in the valley of Montmorency, a few miles north of Paris, and there received a number of distinguished visitors.
Marie Louise De Meester
Mother Marie Louise De Meester, M.C.R.S.A. (Roeselare, Belgium, 8 April 1857 -- Heverlee, Belgium, 10 October 1928), founded the Missionary Canonesses of St. Augustine in Mulagumudu, then British India. They are now known as the Missionary Sisters of the "Immaculati Cordis Mariae" or Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (I.C.M.), an international religious institute serving in the fields of social and pastoral work, technology and medicine.
Lilian Fontaine
Fontaine was born in Reading, Berkshire. She received a scholarship from Reading College at age 13 for her musical talent and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Adélard Fontaine
Joseph-Théophile-Adélard Fontaine (30 November 1892 – 21 November 1967) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. Fontaine was aLiberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, Quebec and became a lawyer by career.
Louise Beaudet
Although she would say that she was born in Tours, France, Marie Louise Anna Beaudet was baptised in the parish of Saint-Louis-de-Lotbinière, province of Québec, Canada, in December 1859. She was the ninth child of Marie-Élisabeth (Eliza) Jobin dit Boisvert (1824-?) and farmer Clément Beaudet (1817-1863). The tragic loss of her father in 1863 and the subsequent move to Montréal deeply affected her childhood years. She was uprooted again in 1870 when her mother married Nathaniel B. Clapp and settled in Boston, Massachusetts. Eliza divorced her second husband six years later and moved to New York City with Louise and eldest daughter Marie Arceline (Amy).
Marie Fox
She was born in Paris (though some sources wrongly say she was born in Florence) on 21 December 1850 (though some sources wrongly say she was born in January 1851). Her mother's name was given as Frenchwoman Victoire Magny of Soissons, but the identity of her father was unspecified. She was baptised at the Church of St. Augustine as Marie Henriette Adélaïde.
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière
Born in Guadeloupe in 1760 to a French colonial official named Pierre Guillon and a disenfranchised "mulatto" mother, Lethière has been often written about in the context of French colonial history and the French Revolution.
Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis
Madame Louis, née Marie-Emmanuelle Bayon, was a French composer, pianist,
and salonnière of considerable activity and influence. Her principal published
works are, as Mademoiselle Bayon, a collection of six keyboard sonatas, three of
them with violin accompaniment, opus 1 (1769), and, as Madame Louis, the full
score of her two-act opéra-comique, Fleur d’épine, or "May-Flower" (the
heroine’s name), scored for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra. The composer’s
unpublished works, discussed during her lifetime but not yet found, include
further instrumental chamber music and opéra-comiques, and music for La fête
de Saint Pierre, a divertissement to a libretto by Antoine-François Quétant
(1733–1823), performed at the Château de la Cour-Neuve in Paris on St. Peter’s
day in 1771.
Marie-Emmanuelle Bayon was born in Marcei, department of Orne (west of
Paris), in 1746. In her preface to the op. 1 sonatas she refers to "the many
kindnesses bestowed upon me since my tenderest infancy" by the family of
Madame la Marquise de Langeron to whom the volume is dedicated. It may be
assumed that Bayon grew up in or near Paris and received, perhaps through this
patronage, special training in music. Accounts of her activities from the age of
about twenty-one appear in the memoirs and correspondence of some of the
leading women and men of the eighteenth-century French Enlightenment. She
composed instrumental music and music for plays, which she performed at
Madame de Genlis’s salon on the rue de Grenelle in collaboration with noted
amateurs like herself as well as internationally known French and foreign
professional musicians. She also participated as actor-singer in salon dramatic
productions, such as comédies, skits, and proverbs. Her good friend, the
encyclopedist and philosopher Denis Diderot, would compare her work to that of
Domenico Alberti, Johann Christian Bach, Johann Gottfried Eckard, Johann
Schobert, and other foreign composers whose music was currently admired in
Paris.
In 1770, on 20 June, Bayon married Victor Louis (1731–1800), an architect with
important social and political connections similar to her own. In 1774 the couple’s
only child was born, Marie-Hélène-Victoire Louis (d. 1848). In Bordeaux the Louis
residence became the site of a highly select salon. Sources also mention
performances of two "opéras" by Madame Louis. It was during this period,
probably in 1775–76, that she completed Fleur d’épine.
Diderot hired Bayon to take on his daughter, Angelique, as a student. In a series
of dialogues published in 1771, Diderot offers some insight into Bayon’s
character and the impact she left upon his daughter. At one lesson Angelique
describes her teacher as "a charming woman, in whom one does not know what
to praise the most—her mind, her character, her morals, or her talent," and adds
that her composition has "facility, expression, grace, melody." At a subsequent
lesson the student compares "pieces by my friend Madame Louis" to those of the
Venetian composer Domenico Alberti (ca. 1710–1740), a collection of whose
sonatas had been published in Paris in 1760: both composers must be played
"with delicacy and good taste" and are therefore difficult to perform, the pupil
observes. By contrast, she knows pieces that are "strong in harmony, loaded
with sounds, varied through modulations," so that, while they may sound difficult,
they "require only precision and a steady beat."
The published score contains an overture and twenty musical numbers—eleven
ariettes, or arias, sung by four of the five characters) plus two duets, two trios,
ensemble finales for each act, two small chorus numbers, and a brief
instrumental fanfare. The Overture is in two sections, Allegro and Andante, each
in Classic key-area form (sonata form). The energetic opening section in G Major
modulates to D major and then explores D minor and other keys, with new
melodic motives, before returning to the home key. In the Andante in C major
the composer creates a softer texture by omitting horns and scoring initial
statements of each melody for strings alone. The expected return to the first key
of the overture is accomplished by the opening duet, which begins in G-major.
The arias are generally in "ABA" form with a brief orchestral introduction.
The production of Fleur d’épine attracted the attention of several Paris writers
and critics. The Mémoires secrètes for 23 August, the day after the premiere,
noted that Fleur d’épine, a "fairy play" (féerie), was "well received." The writer
commented that, while the beginning was cold and without wit, the end of the first
act was better and the second act was "charming," with "flashes of wit" and "a
magnificent spectacle." (The theatre had a suspended platform that could be
lowered and raised over the stage and this was probably used for Seraine’s final
entrance in all her glory.) The short review concluded: "The Comédiens spent a
lot of money on this play. The music, not very strong, is pleasant."
A second review, dated 26 August, was longer and more enthusiastic. The plot
was recounted at some length and the play was reported to be "wonderfully
successful." The echo scene was singled out for praise, as was the spectacle of
Dentue’s "assembled relatives," an "indescribly laughable" collection of "the most
hideous and bizarre figures." The writer reported that Madame Trial "sings
deliciously," and described the effectiveness of each of the other four actors in
glowing terms.
The review in the Correspondance secrète dated 31 August pronounced the
premiere performance "monstrous," especially the sight of a man playing a 
woman (Dentue). The reviewer recounted the plot in detail, noting that the joke
about the sleepy "great nobleman" was "singularly applauded." The writer also
reported, erroneously, that Fleur d’Épine was based on "a few fragments" found
in Voisenon’s papers, and incorrectly named the work’s producers. The music
was described as "sweet but feeble," offering few memorable tunes. A second
report on 7 September noted that in a subsequent performance Fleur-d’Èpine
had undergone so many "corrections" that it was "tolerable enough" to continue
playing.
"Six sonates", op.1. Paris, Vendôme, 1769 (facsimile ed., New York: Da Capo Press, 1990).
"Fleur d’épine", full score. Paris, 1776. Excerpts, ed. D. Hayes, in "Women Composers: Music Through the Ages" (12 vols; New York: G. K. Hall/Macmillan, 1995- ), vols. 4 and 5.
Joan Fontaine
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was an American actress born in Japan to British parents who was best known for her starring roles in cinema during the Classical Hollywood era. Fontaine appeared in more than 45 feature films in a career that spanned five decades. She was the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland.
Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine
Manon's husband recognized Louise as his own with complacency, as well the two other children born from the affair with Bernard: Marie-Louise (born 25 August 1710) and Françoise-Thérèse (born 12 March 1712), both also baptized in the parish of Saint-Roch. During her marriage, Manon gave birth two other children, this time sired by her husband: Jeanne-Marie-Thérèse (born in 1705) and Jules-Armand (born on 3 April 1709), both also baptized in Saint-Roch.
Magda Fontanges
Born in 1889, the daughter of the painter in Pouille-les-Coteaux, Fontanges lost her mother at age seven. By the age of 17 she was married, only to divorce two years later. Another source suggests that it was at 18 years of age, just after leaving school, that Fontanges married a police official. After the separation, she moved to Paris and took the surname Fontanges, the name of a former Louis XIV mistress.
Guillaume-Antoine Calvière
Guillaume-Antoine Calvière was born in Paris around 1695, the son of Rodolphe Calvière and Jeanne Boundin.
He was a pupil of Philippe Isoré de La Fontaine, who spent his whole career until his death in 1733 as organist of Saint-Denis.
Calvière was gifted and precocious, and made his first public performance at the age of eleven.
Calvière's younger sister Cécile Louise Calvière, born in 1703, was also an organist.
Mary of Guise
Mary was born at Bar-le-Duc, Lorraine, the eldest daughter of Claude of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, head of the House of Guise, and his wife Antoinette de Bourbon, herself the daughter of Francis, Count of Vendome, and Marie de Luxembourg. Among her 11 siblings were Francis, Duke of Guise; Claude, Duke of Aumale; Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine; and Louis I, Cardinal of Guise. Mary was tall and her mother mentioned in a letter that she suffered from bad colds. However, there is a story of Mary of Guise being born in a commoner's home while en route to her "supposed" birthplace. Her name has also been stylized as Mary of Guise, Marie de Guise, and Mary di Guise.
Louise Élisabeth of France
Marie Louise Élisabeth de France and her twin Henriette de France were born at the Palace of Versailles on 14 August 1727 to Louis XV of France and queen Maria Leszczyńska. With her younger twin, she was baptised at Versailles on 27 April 1737 with the names of her parents. As the legitimate daughter of the king, she was a "fille de France", but was known at court as "Madame Royale", "Madame Première", "Madame Élisabeth", and also as "Babette" within her family circle.
Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle du Maine
Louise-Françoise was very close to her parents even though the latter were never really close. Louise-Françoise's mother would frequently embarrass her husband and this caused much friction. On 9 April 1714, she was baptised with the name of her aunt Louise Françoise de Bourbon, known as "Madame la Duchesse". Madame la Duchesse had grown up with the Duke of Maine under the care of Madame de Maintenon. Present at her baptism were the Dauphin, Louis de France who was the guest of honour being helped by Mademoiselle du Maine's other paternal aunt, the Duchess of Orléans. It was the Cardinal de Rohan who baptised Mademoiselle du Maine.
Saint-Eustache, Paris
Many celebrated Parisians are connected with the Church of St. Eustache. Louis XIV made his First Communion there in 1649. Cardinal Richelieu, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson (Madame de Pompadour), and Molière were all baptized there; Molière was also married there in 1662. Mozart held his mother's funeral there. Funerals were held at St. Eustache for Queen Anne of Austria, military hero Turenne, and French Revolution leader Mirabeau. Writer Marie de Gournay was buried there.
Joseph Lafontaine (Berthier MLA)
He was born in Saint-Barthélémi, Canada East, the son of Amable Lafontaine and Julie Lincourt, and was educated there, at the Collège de Joliette and the Collège de l'Assomption. Lafontaine was married twice: to Georgie Rochette in 1889 and to Juliette Mousseau in 1905. He was mayor of Saint-Barthélémi from 1897 to 1903 and also served as warden for Berthier County. Lafontaine was president of the school board for Saint-Barthélémi from 1910 to 1919. He was first elected to the Quebec assembly in a 1904 by-election. He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1912 but elected again in 1916. In 1919, he was named inspector of prisons. Lafontaine died in Saint-Barthélémi at the age of 54.
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".
Louise of France (1737–1787)
Their trip was described: "the princesses, who departed from Court in eight coaches and two chaises with twenty wagon loads of luggage, arrived at Fontevrault after a journey lasting thirteen days. The Abbess, who was a Rochechouart-Mortemart, took the trouble to receive them clad all in white and accompanied by four singing girls. She desired that on their arrival the Royal children should be greeted by attractive faces, and colors which would please them." 
On 20 December 1738 Louise was baptised at Fontevraud; her godfather was François-Marc-Antoine de Bussy, seigneur de Bisé; her godmother was Marie-Louise Bailly-Adenet, first woman of the chamber to her sister Madame Thérèse.
Louise of France (1737–1787)
The Venerable Louise-Marie of France (15 July 1737 – 23 December 1787) was a French princess and Carmelite, the youngest of the ten children of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska. She entered the Carmelite convent (now the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Denis) at Saint-Denis in 1770 under the name of Thérèse of Saint Augustine, and served as prioress in 1773-1779 and 1785-1787. She was declared venerable in 1873.
Mary of Modena
Louis XIV gave the exiled King and Queen the use of Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where they set up court-in-exile. Mary soon became a popular fixture at Louis XIV's court at Versailles, where diarist Madame de Sévigné acclaimed Mary for her "distinguished bearing and her quick wit". Questions of precedence, however, marred Mary's relations with the Dauphine of France, Maria Anna of Bavaria. Because Mary was accorded the privileges and rank of a queen, Maria Anna was outranked by her. Therefore, Maria Anna refused to see Mary, etiquette being a sensitive issue at Versailles. In spite of this, Louis XIV and his secret wife, Madame de Maintenon, became close friends with Mary. As there was no queen at the French court, nor a dauphine after 1690, Mary took precedence over all the female members of the French court and French royal house, as did her daughter in her capacity of a royal princess until the next French dauphine appeared in 1711. James was largely excluded from French court life. His contemporaries found him boring, and French courtiers frequently joked that "when one talks to him, one understands why he is here." Mary gave birth to Princess Louise Mary in 1692. She was to be James and Mary's last child.
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
Madame de Villedieu was born at Alençon, the second daughter of Guillaume Desjardins and Catherine Ferrand, who worked as a ladies' maid for the wife of duke Henri de Rohan-Montbazon. After the divorce of her parents in 1655 the fifteen-year-old girl was taken by her mother to Paris. She came under the protection of the duchess of Rohan (thanks to the poems she presented her). Louis XIV gave Madame de Villedieu a pension of 1500 livres. She was admitted to the Academy of the Ricovrati of Padua. She died at Saint-Rémy-du-Val (Sarthe).
Eugénie Fougère (demimondaine)
Fougère was born in 1861 in Chambon-sur-Voueize, a small town in the Limousin region in central France. In 1880, she left Chambon-sur-Voueize at the age of 19 and went to Montluçon where she began to work as a waitress and maid. Quickly, her beauty was remarked and she received some nicknames, such as Miss chocolate. Soon she followed a lover to live in Paris and became a model of a major fashion house.
Jean Marie, Duke of Châteauvillain
His mother Maria Teresa d'Este, "Princess of Modena" by birth, was also a descendant of Louis XIV and Montespan, her mother Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans being their grand daughter and child of Philippe d'Orléans, "Régent" of France. Jean Marie was created "duc de Châteauvillain" at his birth, one of the many titles his father possessed. At the time of his birth in 1748, his parents, who were devoted to each other, already had two other sons, Louis Marie born in 1746 and the Prince of Lamballe. At the early death of Louis Jean in 1749, Lamballe became the heir of one of the largest fortunes in Europe.
Francis Fontaine
Francis Fontaine was born on May 7, 1845 in Columbus, Georgia. His father, John Fontaine (1792-1866), had served as the Mayor of Columbus from 1836 to 1837, and he was a planter. His mother was Mary Ann Stewart. He was educated at the Georgia Military Institute in Marietta, Georgia.
Rodolphe Desdunes
Rodolphe married Mathilde Cheval and lived for some time with her mother, also named Mathilde. Before 1880, they had children Daniel (born in about 1873), Agnes (about 1873), Louise (about 1874), Coritza (born in 1876), and Wendelle (born winter 1876-1877). The Chevals may have descended from early Cheval settlers of the Tremé district, Pierre and Léandre. In 1879, Rodolphe started a relationship with Clementine Walker, born in 1860 and daughter of John and Ophelia Walker. Rodolphe and Clementine had at least four children, Mary Celine (in 1879), John Alexander (1881), Louise (1889), and Oscar Alphonse (1892). Clementine died September 23, 1893. Mary Celine later became known as Mamie Desdunes and was a blues pianist. Clementine lived near Jelly Roll Morton's godmother and Jérémie and Henriette Desdunes were neighbors of Morton's mother. From this proximity, Morton learned the song he recorded as "Mamie's Blues" or "2:19 Blues" and attributed to Mamie, singing, "Can’t give a dollar, give a lousy dime,/ I wanna feed that hungry man of mine." Other associates of Mamie included performer Bunk Johnson and promoters Hattie Rogers and Lulu White. Mamie was born March 25, 1879, married George Degay in 1898, and died of tuberculosis December 4, 1911. Oscar was also a musician and played with his nephew Clarence's (son of Daniel) band, the Joyland Revellers, after Clarence's death in 1933. Rodolphe had three other daughters, possibly by Clementine, named Edna, Lucille, and Jeanne (born about 1893).
Rodolphe attended law courses at Straight University in the early 1870s and graduated with a Bachelors of Law from Straight University in the spring of 1882. In the early 1870s, he was a member of the New Orleans Police Department. In 1874, under the command of former Confederate General and then adjutant general of the Louisiana Militia James Longstreet, Desdunes was among the injured in the Battle of Liberty Place fought between the pro-Republican city, state, and federal forces and a pro-Democratic largely ex-Confederate group called the White League. His experience stuck with him and he remained a strong supporter of the rights and honors due to the black veterans of the United States Civil War.
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Marie-Adélaïde (Marie Adelheid Thérèse Hilda Wilhelmine; 14 June 1894 – 24 January 1924), reigned as Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1912 until her abdication in 1919. She was the first Grand Duchess regnant of Luxembourg (after five grand dukes), its first female monarch since Duchess Maria Theresa (1740–1780, who was also Austrian Empress) and the first Luxembourgish monarch to be born within the territory since Count John the Blind (1296–1346).
Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine
Beautiful, intelligent and cultivated, her seductive power attracts all the sympathies, including men of letters, philosophers and scholars. In this circle and the dinners that she hosted, Madame Dupin had animated conversations, led the debates and proposed discussions. In the Hôtel Lambert, Chenonceau or in the Hôtel de Vins, she held a literary and scientific salon: among her guests are notably Voltaire, the Abbot of Saint-Pierre, Fontenelle, Marivaux, Montesquieu, Buffon, Marmontel, Mably, Condillac, Grimm, Bernis and Rousseau; in addition, she received a great members of the French nobility, like the Princess of Rohan, the Countess of Forcalquier, the Duchess of Lévis-Mirepoix, the Baroness Hervey and the Princess of Monaco. Madame du Deffand was also received, although perhaps she was the only one who spoke unfavorably about Louise Dupin; this probably was because of a typical case of jealousy: the authoritarian hostess of the salon in the Saint-Dominique street found it difficult to accept that her guests attended other circles. During the Enlightenment, the salons were an integral part of social life of the elites, and played an essential role in the dissemination of ideas, social and political protest.
Brigitte Fontaine
The daughter of two teachers, Brigitte Fontaine developed her taste for writing and drama very early. She spent her childhood in small villages of Finistère, then in Morlaix. At 17 years old, she moved to Paris in order to become an actress.
Princess Marie Bonaparte
She was born at Saint-Cloud, a town in Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France and called "Mimi" within the family. Her maternal grandfather had left an estimated fortune of FF 88M when he died in 1877. However, his widow, born Marie Hensel, left mostly debts for her three children, including Marie's mother Marie-Félix, to pay off upon her death in July 1881. Prince Roland protected his wife's fortune by persuading her to renounce that of her late mother before the amount of her debts became known. Marie-Felix died of an embolism shortly after Marie's birth, leaving half of her FF 8.4M dowry to her husband and half to her daughter. Most was managed in trust during Marie's youth by her father, who had few financial resources of his own. Marie lived with her father, a published geographer and botanist, in Paris and on various family country estates where he studied, wrote and lectured, leading an active life in Parisian academic circles and on expeditions abroad, while her daily life was supervised by tutors and servants. Afflicted by phobias and hypochondria as a youth, Marie spent much of her time in seclusion, reading literature and writing the personal journals which reveal her inquisitive spirit and early commitment to the scientific method reflected in her father's scholarship.
Louise de Bettignies
Peterinck de La Gohelle, de Bettignies’ great-grandfather, originated in Lille.
He settled in Tournai in 1752, where he founded a factory creating porcelain art on the quai des Salines.
This factory was called the imperial and royal factory.
In 1787 the Duke of Orleans ordered a magnificent service in blue decor from Tournai, of which some pieces are held in the .
Princess Marie Louise of Orléans (1896–1973)
Princess "Marie Louise" Ferdinande Charlotte Henriette of Orléans (31 December 1896, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France – 8 March 1973, New York City, New York, United States) was a Princess of Orléans by birth and a Princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies through her marriage to Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle du Maine
Louise Françoise de Bourbon was born at the Palace of Versailles to Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Légitimé de France, "duc du Maine" and his wife Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, known as "Mademoiselle de Charolais" prior to her marriage. Her father was the eldest legitimised son of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan. Her mother was later a famous salon hostess at the family home Château de Sceaux. Her mother was also a grand daughter of "le Grand Condé".
Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon (1757–1824)
In 1789, she fled to Belgium to escape the first stages of the French Revolution . In 1802, in Poland, she took the veil, returning to Paris in 1816 to found a religious institution. She was later the Lady of "Saint Pierre" and "Metz" and "Cetera", lordships she held in her own right.
Madeleine of Valois
Madeleine was born at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, the fifth child and third daughter of King Francis I of France and Claude, Duchess of Brittany (daughter of King Louis XII of France and Anne, Duchess of Brittany). Very frail from birth, she grew up in the warm and temperate Loire Valley region of France, rather than at Paris, as her father feared that the cold would destroy her delicate health. Together with her sister Margaret, she was raised by her aunt, Marguerite de Navarre. This lasted until her father remarried and his new wife, Eleanor of Austria, took them into her own household. By her sixteenth birthday, she had contracted tuberculosis.
Louise de Rohan
Louise de Rohan (Louise Gabrielle Julie; 11 August 1704 – 20 August 1780) was a French noblewoman and Princess of Guéméné by marriage.
Marie-Barbe de Boullongne
The daughter of Florentin de Boullongne and Eustache Quéan, she was born in Ravières, France. In 1638, she married Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge, who later became the governor of New France. She apparently took an interest in the First Nations people, learning their languages, and was given by them the Algonquin name "Chaouerindamaguetch" ("She who takes pity on us in our wretchedness"). After her husband's death in 1660, she became a novice in the Ursulines of Quebec. However, unable to adjust to their rules, she left after several months with the aim of doing good works. In the years 1662 to 1663, with Father Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot, she founded the Confrérie de la Sainte-Famille at Montreal; it was later established at Quebec City with the support of Bishop François de Laval. In 1670, she donated her worldly possessions to the support of the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec.
Frederica de Laguna
de Laguna was born to Theodore Lopez de Leo de Laguna and Grace Mead Andrus, philosophy professors at Bryn Mawr College, on October 3, 1906 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She was home-schooled by her parents until age 9 due to frequent illness. She joined her parents and younger brother Wallace on two sabbaticals during her adolescence: Cambridge and Oxford, England in 1914-1915 and France in 1921-1922.
Marie-Louise-Élisabeth de Lamoignon de Molé de Champlâtreux
Blessed Marie-Louise-Élisabeth de Lamoignon de Molé de Champlâtreux (3 October 1763 - 4 March 1825) - in religious Saint-Louis - was a French Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Louis (1803). Lamoignon dedicated herself to the education of both the poor and abandoned girls of her region though her love for the poor was noted during her marriage; this was something her politician husband also supported before he was executed during the French Revolution. That period bought great turmoil upon her coupled with the loss of two of her five children.
Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine
On 9 October 1749 at the Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, Jacques-Armand Dupin married with Louise-Alexandrine-Julie de Rochechouart-Pontville. But for Louise and her husband, their son was a source of many troubles, especially when he ran up debts of very large sums of money from gambling. His father had to sell many of his assets in 1750 to honor the debt of his son. The troubles with Jacques-Armand, however, continued. Claude Dupin was forced to obtain against him a "Lettre de cachet", who imprisoned Jacques-Armand in the fortress of Pierre Encise under the pretext of madness. After this, the family decided to send him to the Île Maurice (26 October 1765), where he remained for the next two years until his death on 3 May 1767, a victim of yellow fever. Before embarking on the "Count of Artois", a merchant ship of the French East India Company, Jacques-Armand reportedly revealed to his mother the existence of an illegitimate daughter of his, called Marie-Thérèse Adam, whose origins, however, remained mysterious. Nevertless, Madame Dupin took care of the child and raised as her own, later becoming in her reader and heiress. Louise considers Marie-Thérèse as her own daughter and educated after her own image, transmitting her high culture and elegance of her manners. Marie-Thérèse Adam was entirely dedicated to Madame Dupin and remained at her side until the last moment.
Victoire of France (1733–1799)
Marie Louise Thérèse Victoire de France was born at the Palace of Versailles. Unlike the older children of Louis XV, Madame Victoire was not raised at the Palace of Versailles. Rather, she was, in June 1738, sent to live at the Abbey of Fontevraud with her younger sisters, because the cost of raising them in Versailles with all the status they were entitled to was deemed too expensive by Cardinal Fleury, Louis XV's chief minister. She remained there till 1748 when she was 15.
Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans
Orléans was born at the Château de Saint Germain en Laye outside Paris in 1648. She was the youngest surviving daughter of Gaston d'Orléans and his second wife Marguerite of Lorraine. From birth, she was styled "Mademoiselle de Valois", derived from one of her father's subsidiary titles. She was the favourite sister of "La Grande Mademoiselle", the famous heiress. She grew up in the company of her sisters and "Mademoiselle de La Vallière", future mistress of Louis XIV. She resided at the Château de Blois. Her father died in 1660 and her mother remained unmarried.
Louise Veltin
She was born in Paris on January 8, 1856; her parents were Captain Christian Veltin and Henriette de Launay Veltin. Her father died fighting Indians in New Mexico.
Nicole Fontaine
Born in 1942 in Normandy, the daughter of a doctor and the granddaughter of primary school teachers, she was awarded a degree in law in 1962 at the age of 20, the diploma of the Paris Institute of Political Studies in 1964 and a doctorate in public law in 1969. She is a lawyer and a member of the bar of the department of Hauts-de-Seine.
Laurent-David Lafontaine
He was born in Saint-Philippe, Lower Canada, the son of François Lafontaine and Marie Coupal, and was educated at the Collège de Montréal. He qualified to practice as a doctor in 1846 and set up practice in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Saint-Édouard. Lafontaine was also agent for the seigneury of Saint-Georges. He was mayor of Saint-Édouard, warden for Napierville County and secretary-treasurer for the Saint-Édouard school board. He served as Liberal Party whip in 1881. Lafontaine was married three times: to Cécile Daigneau in 1850, to Edwidge Singer in 1857 and to Clémence Lemay, dit Delorme in 1868. He died at Montréal at the age of 68.
Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart
The son of bobby de Rochechouart and Elisabeth-Armide Durey de Morsan, Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart was born in Paris on 14 September 1788, only a few months before the outbreak of the French Revolution. A younger brother and thus likely destined for a career in the church, he had to flee Paris in 1794 (aged 6) due to his mother's activities in attempting to arrange for the escape of queen Marie-Antoinette. Pursued by gendarmes come to arrest her, she, Louis-Victor-Léon and his brother Louis managed to escape, though his 10-year-old sister Cornélie was not so lucky - chased by the authorities, and on her own, she died of exhaustion after 3 days wandering Paris. Forced to leave France, the countess of Rochechouart left her two young sons in a house in Caen owned by a couple who exploited the situation. Housed in terrible conditions and deprived of food, the two brothers became the couple's servants. After a year they were found by a relative and freed from service. They reached 
Fribourg in Switzerland in 1796, where they hoped their still-exiled mother would join them but she was prevented from doing so. Thus the two brothers were generously housed by a citizen of that town until revolutionary French troops entered it in 1798 and forced them to flee once more. They finally caught up with their mother in Antwerp, before moving on with her to Rotterdam, London and Hamburg. Her implication in plots to restore the monarchy lost her her fortune, brought her many political problems and leave several refuge countries. Without a sou, she and her two children finally took refuge in Germany, where they were forced to make and sell bags to survive. He later wrote of this period "This kind of life gave me good sad reflections. Misery is a terrible thing. Nobody can get a full idea of it who has not suffered it himself. This evil can happen to anyone, imprison anyone." Aged 11, Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart thus decided to embark for Hamburg to join the émigré regiment commanded by his uncle the duke of Mortemart and intended for Portugal. After many adventures, leading him through the Netherlands, England and Spain, he finally arrived in Lisbon in 1800.
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Thus, when her father died on 25 February 1912, she succeeded to the throne at the age of 17, becoming the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. Her mother served as regent until Marie-Adélaïde's eighteenth birthday on 18 June 1912, when the President of the Chamber Auguste Laval swore her in as the first Luxembourgish monarch to be born in the territory since Count John the Blind (1296–1346). Laval's speech to the Chamber of Deputies (parliament) during the ceremony was:
Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine
Madame Dupin passed her estate to her step-greatgrandson, Count René-François Vallet de Villeneuve and his wife Apolline de Guibert. Chenonceaux remained in the family until 1864. The Marquisate of Blanc went to René's younger brother Auguste-Louis Vallet de Villeneuve, Treasurer of the City of Paris and husband of Laure-Antoinette de Ségur, a daughter of Count Louis-Philippe de Ségur.
Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon
After her legitimisation in 1676, she gained the style of Mademoiselle de Tours from the town of Tours in France. Growing up in Paris, she was adored by her oldest sister Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, who was known as "Mademoiselle de Nantes". Some three years after her birth, she was joined by another sister, Françoise-Marie de Bourbon – future wife of Philippe d'Orléans "Régent" of France. Then in 1678 her last full brother was born at Clagny, Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon. The latter two were made legitimate in November 1681.
Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau
He was born in Liège, Belgium, to Antoine, comte de Mercy-Argenteau, and entered the diplomatic service of Austria in Paris in the train of Reichsfürst Kaunitz. He became Austrian minister in Turin at the court of King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, in St. Petersburg at the court of Catherine the Great, and then Paris at the court of King Louis XV of France in 1766. In Paris, his first work was to strengthen the alliance between France and Austria, which was cemented in 1770 by the marriage of the dauphin, afterwards Louis XVI, with Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, afterwards known as Queen Marie Antoinette. When Louis and Marie Antoinette ascended the throne of France in 1774, Mercy-Argenteau became one of the most powerful personages at the French court due to his influence over Marie-Antoinette, which made her unpopular with the French nobility and French people. He was in Paris during the turbulent years that led up to the French Revolution, and gave powerful aid to the finance ministers Loménie de Brienne and Necker. In 1792, he became governor-general of the Austrian Netherlands, which had just been reduced to obedience by Austria. There, his ability and experience made him a very successful ruler. Although at first in favor of moderate courses, Mercy-Argenteau supported the action of Austria in making war upon its former ally after the outbreak of the French Revolution, and in July 1794, he was appointed Austrian ambassador to Britain, but he died a few days after his arrival in London.
Bourbon-Penthièvre
Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon was first known as "Mademoiselle d'Ivoy", then "Mademoiselle de Penthièvre". In April 1769, she married her distant cousin, the duc de Chartres, who inherited the title of duc d'Orléans at the death of his father, Louis-Philippe I d'Orléans in 1785, but took the name Philippe Egalité during the French Revolution of 1789. Mlle de Penthièvre had brought with her a dowry of 6 million livres, and an annual allowance of over 500,000 livres. Upon the death of the duc de Penthièvre in 1793, the Bourbon-Penthièvre fortune Louise Adélaïde was to inherit was confiscated by the revolutionary government. It is only after her return to France during the First Bourbon Restoration of 1814 that she was able, through numerous legal battles, to regain what was left of some of her land estates, many of them having been either sold, gutted or nearly destroyed during the Revolution.At the Palace of Versailles, the family also occupied a suite of apartments located on the ground floor of the Palace underneath the "Grand Appartement du roi". Originally called the Appartements des Bains, they were the former apartments of Françoise-Athénaïs de Montespan, the mother of the duc du Maine, the comte de Toulouse, the duchesse d'Orléans and the princesse de Condé.
Henri Boudon
Boudon was born in La Fère in Picardy to Jean and Antoinette Jourdin Boudon. His father was lieutenant of the citadel. After 15 years of childless marriage his mother prayed for a child, which prayers became only more intense with the death of their first born shortly after birth. The town of Liesse-Notre-Dame is situated about northwest of Reims. Liesse-Notre-Dame (Our Lady of Joy) is a center of Marian pilgrimage, and was a favorite shrine of Princess Henrietta Maria of France. On her way to Liesse, in company with her mother, Marie de' Medici, and sister-in-law, Anne of Austria, she happened to pass through La Fère on the day of the infant Boudon's christening. The princess agreed to be the child's godmother and he was baptized Henri-Marie.
Louise Henriette de Bourbon
Louise Henriette de Bourbon (20 June 1726 – 9 February 1759), "Mademoiselle de Conti" at birth, was a French princess, who, by marriage, became Duchess of Chartres (1743–1752), then Duchess of Orléans (1752–1759) upon the death of her father-in-law. On 4 February 1752, her husband became the head of the House of Orléans, and the First Prince of the Blood ("Premier prince du sang"), the most important personage after the immediate members of the royal family.
Marie Louise d’Orléans
Marie Louise d'Orléans was born at the Palais Royal in Paris. She was the eldest daughter of Philippe, Duke of Orléans, the younger brother of Louis XIV of France and of his first wife, Henrietta Anne of England. As a "petite-fille de France" she was entitled to the attribute of "Royal Highness," although, as was customary at court at the palace of Versailles, her style, "Mademoiselle d'Orléans", was more often used. 
Charming, pretty and graceful, Marie Louise, who was her father's favourite child, had a happy childhood, residing most of the time in the Palais-Royal, and at the château de Saint-Cloud situated a few kilometres west of Paris. Marie Louise spent a lot of time with both her paternal and maternal grandmothers—Anne of Austria, who doted on her and left the bulk of her fortune to her when she died in 1666; and Henrietta Maria, who lived in Colombes.
Marie-Hortense Fiquet
She was born in Saligney, France on 22 April 1850. In 1869, she met Cézanne at an art school in Paris called Académie Suisse. This art school was used by a number of major artists as a place to meet each other and to paint the models who worked there. Fiquet's main job was as a bookseller or bookbinder, but she combined this with part-time work as a model. They started a relationship and when the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1871, they left Paris together for L'Estaque in the south of France. Afraid of offending his father, Louis-Auguste Cézanne, a well-to-do banker, and compromising his allowance, he went to great lengths to conceal his liaison with Fiquet. The existence of their child Paul, born in 1872, was kept from Louis-Auguste for some years.
Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon (1757–1824)
Her mother died at the Hôtel de Condé after "a long illness" as reported by the Duke of Luynes; at the time, Louise Adélaïde was just three years of age. As a result, Louise Adélaïde was raised by her great-aunt, Henriette Louise de Bourbon (1703–1772).
Jean de La Fontaine
La Fontaine was born at Château-Thierry in France. His father was Charles de La Fontaine, – a kind of deputy-ranger – of the Duchy of Château-Thierry; his mother was Françoise Pidoux. Both sides of his family were of the highest provincial middle class; though they were not noble, his father was fairly wealthy.
Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine
On 12 March 1794 Louise's step-grandson-in-law and nephew Pierre-Armand Vallet de Villeneuve, committed suicide in prison in the Conciergerie aged 62. He was the King's secretary, General Treasurer of the City of Paris and the Receiver General of Finances in Metz. Sentenced by the Revolutionary Tribunal, he escape to a brutal end in the guillotine. Louise managed to save his sons René and Auguste, spared because their young ages. On 25 November 1793 Marie-Aurore de Saxe, second wife of her late stepson Louis-Claude, was incarcelated firstly at Port-Royal Abbey and later in the English convent of Fossés-Saint-Victor street. She could be released some months later, on 21 August 1794. In 1796, one of the farmers of Madame Dupin in the Château de Rochefort in the Indre department was tortured by burning his feet; the criminals, nicknamed the "Chauffeurs", are a plague in the region.
Jean Marie, Duke of Châteauvillain
His mother died in 1754 in childbirth bring Louis Marie Félicité into the world. Louis Marie himself would die sometime after birth. Jean Marie's father never married again. The next year Jean Marie himself would die in Paris. Buried at the Chapel at the Château de Rambouillet, his fathers favourite residence. His sister Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, future "Duchess of Orléans" would move Jean Marie's body to the Royal Chapel, Dreux; Dreux is today the burial site of the Royal House of Orléans which descends from Marie Adélaïde and her husband, Philippe Égalité. The painting of Jean Marie by Louis Michel van Loo is today held at the "Musée national du Château de Versailles".
Agathe de La Fontaine
Agathe de La Fontaine (born 27 March 1972) is a French actress. Her film roles include "Train de vie" (1998), which shared the 1999 Sundance World Cinema Audience Award with "Run Lola Run", and "Love in Paris", the sequel to "9½ Weeks". La Fontaine was married to former football player Emmanuel Petit.
Louise de La Fayette
Louise was one of the fourteen children of Jean comte de La Fayette, and Marguerite de Bourbon-Busset. She was born in Amathay-Vésigneux. Her mother was a member of House Bourbon-Busset an illegitimate branch of the royal House of Bourbon. Her sister-in-law was Madame de La Fayette (1634–1693) the author of "La Princesse de Clèves", France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.
Marie-Louise-Élisabeth de Lamoignon de Molé de Champlâtreux
Marie-Louise-Élisabeth de Lamoignon was born on 3 October 1763 in Paris to Chrétien François de Lamoignon (18.12.1735-16.05.1789) - a politician - and Marie-Elisabeth Berryer as the second of six children; her parents' union was described once as "one of the best matches in Paris". Her two politician brothers were Anne-Pierre-Chrétien de Lamoignon (15.06.1770-21.03.1827) and René-Chrétien-Auguste de Lamoignon (19.06.1765-07.04.1845). Her sisters were Marie Gabrielle Olive de Lamoignon (b. 18.01.1761) and Constance de Lamoignon (14.01.1774-30.04.1823) and Marie Catherine de Lamoignon (1759-1849). Lamoignon received her baptism on 3 October after her birth in the local parish church of Saint-Sulpice.
Eugène Lafontaine
He was born in Saint-Édouard, Canada East, the son of Laurent-David Lafontaine and Edwige Singer. Lafontaine was educated at the Collège de Montréal and the Université Laval at Montreal. He was admitted to the Quebec bar in 1879 and practised in Montreal with Raymond Préfontaine and then Frédéric Liguori Béique. In 1880, he married Elmire, the daughter of Louis-Joseph Moll. He was named Queen's Counsel in 1899. Lafontaine served as president of the Montreal Catholic School Board from 1919 to 1928. He was professor of civil law at the Université Laval and was dean of the faculty of law from 1922 to 1930. Lafontaine was named judge in the Quebec Superior Court for Montreal district in 1906 and in the Court of King's Bench in 1922. He retired from the bench in 1932. He died three years later in Montreal at the age of 77 and was buried in Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.
Micaela Almonester, Baroness de Pontalba
Louise was the eldest child of wealthy French-Canadian Naval Officer Pierre Denys de La Ronde (1726-1772), reassigned from Nouvelle-France to Nouvelle-Orleans by his Godfather, later French Louisiana Governor, Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, and later distinguished in the French and Indian Wars. Through her father, Louise was the great-granddaughter of famed Judge and poet René-Louis Chartier de Lotbinière of Maison Lotbinière, a great-great niece of Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure and, through his wife, Charlotte Denys de La Ronde, a great-niece of Claude de Ramezay. Louise's mother, Madeleine (Broutin) Denys de la Ronde, was the daughter of Ignace Francois Broutin, royal engineer, celebrated architect, and commandant of the French militia at Fort Natchez. Her only brother was wealthy plantation owner Pierre Denis de La Ronde (1762 - 1824), who would distinguish himself in the Battle of New Orleans, the Night Attack of which was then fought on his much-admired, if widely misnamed (Versailles, Louisiana), plantation, and beneath its equally misnamed "allée" of Southern live oaks.
Maurice Fontaine
He was born in 1919, and was a viticulturist. In 1965, he was elected mayor of Aigues-Mortes, a position he would hold until 1977. He ran for the position of Senator from Gard in 1971, placing second to Suzanne Crémieux. When she died in 1976, he succeeded automatically to her place. In the Senate, he was a member of the "Groupe de la Gauche démocratique".
Louise Michel
Louise Michel (; 29 May 1830 – 9 January 1905) was a teacher and important figure in the Paris Commune. Following her penal transportation she embraced anarchism. When returning to France she emerged as important French anarchist and went on speaking tours across Europe. The journalist Brian Doherty has called her the "French grande dame of anarchy." 
Louise Michel was born on 29 May 1830 as the illegitimate daughter of a serving-maid, Marianne Michel. She was raised by her grandparents, Charlotte and Charles-Étienne Demahis, in north-eastern France. She spent her childhood in the Château à Vroncourt la Cote and was provided with a libertarian education. When her grandparents died, she completed the teacher training and worked in villages.
Joseph Lafontaine (Quebec MP)
He was born in St-Calixte de Somerset, Quebec, the son of Grégoire Lafontaine and Aurélie Tourigny, and was educated in Arthabaska. In 1906, he married Marie-Louise Boisvert. Lafontaine was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the Quebec assembly in 1935. He lived in Thetford Mines.
René Louiche Desfontaines
Desfontaines was born near Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medicine. His interest in botany originated from lectures at the Jardin des Plantes given by Louis Guillaume Lemonnier. He excelled in his new interest and was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1783. He was also a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.
Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans
She was born at the Palace of Versailles, and was her parents' fourth surviving daughter (the first, "Mademoiselle de Valois" died a year after birth). Prior to her marriage, she was known as "Mademoiselle de Montpensier". She grew up among one brother and five sisters. Because no one was much interested in her as a child, Louise Élisabeth received a poor education and seemed destined for marriage to some obscure German or Italian prince. Like her younger sister, Louise, she had a convent education. She was very close to her brother, Louis, Duke of Chartres at birth, who, upon the death of their father in 1723, would inherit the title of Duke of Orléans.
Françoise d'Orléans-Longueville
Françoise was born on 5 April 1549 in Châteaudun, France. She was the only daughter of François d'Orléans, Marquis of Rothelin, Prince of Chalet-Aillon, Viscount of Melun, and Jacqueline de Rohan, herself the Marquise of Rothelin in her own right. Her father had died on 25 October 1548, less than six months before her birth. From birth she was known as Mademoiselle de Longueville.
Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine
Samuel Bernard decides to engage his daughter Louise to Claude Dupin, a modest collector of "Taille" at Châteauroux. According to the columnist Barthélémy Mouffle d'Angerville in 1721 Claude Dupin helped the eldest daughter of the family, Jeanne-Marie-Thérèse de Fontaine, when she passed through Berry. She married with François II de Barbançois, Seigneur de Celon on 21 August 1720 and, returning from the baths of Bourbon-l'Archambault and in considerable pain, she received the hospitality of Claude Dupin. Once his guest was recovered, Dupin was persuaded to accompanied her to Paris, where he met Samuel Bernard, who impressed by his kindness, offered him the hand of Louise, aged only sixteen. In his forties, a widower and father of a six-year-old son Louis-Claude (who became in the grandfather of the novelist George Sand), this move was unexpected and he readily agreed, because with this proposal came the appointment of Receiver General of finances in Metz and Alsace.
Françoise Marie de Bourbon
Françoise Marie was born in 1677, at the château de Maintenon, owned since 1674 by Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, the governess of Madame de Montespan's illegitimate children by Louis XIV. She and her younger brother, Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse were cared for by Mmes de Monchevreuil, de Colbert and de Jussac under Mme. de Maintenon's' supervision, their mother being eventually ostracized from court. As a child, she was brought occasionally to Versailles to visit her parents.