Amélie de Boufflers
BIRTH
May 5, 1751
Paris, France
DEATH
June 27, 1794
Paris, France
FAMILY
FATHER:
Charles-Joseph de Boufflers
(1731-1751)
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Boufflers, Amélie de
(1751-1794)
Amélie de Boufflers (1751-1794) was a social hostess and the spouse of Lauzun, Armand Louis de Gontaut. Lauzun, Armand Louis de Gontaut was a military officer whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Amélie de Boufflers to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. The recorded birthplace at Paris, France helps place this family connection within the geography of the Revolutionary Atlantic world. Including Amélie de Boufflers in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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HUSBAND
Lauzun, Armand Louis de Gontaut
(1747-1793)
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DIED:
Paris, France
Jun 27, 1794
Amélie de Boufflers was born on May 5, 1751 in Paris, France. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Amélie de Boufflers with work or public activity as a hostess. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Amélie de Boufflers died on Jun 27, 1794 in Paris, France. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.