Anne de Noailles
(1758-1794)
BIRTH
November 11, 1758
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DEATH
July 22, 1794
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FATHER
Jean de Noailles
(1739-1824)
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Anne Louise de Noailles (1758–1794), the Vicomtesse de Noailles, married her cousin Louis Marie de Noailles in 1773. A daughter of the Duke d’Ayen and Henriette d’Aguesseau, she was Adrienne de Lafayette’s sister. While her husband served in the American war and later left France, she remained caught in the French Revolution. She was guillotined in Paris on July 22, 1794, with her mother and grandmother, and buried among the victims at Picpus.
EARLY LIFE
Anne Louise de Noailles was born on Nov 11, 1758. 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.
No distinct public profession or office for Anne Louise de Noailles is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Anne Louise de Noailles died on Jul 22, 1794. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
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DEATH
Anne Louise de Noailles was executed by guillotine in Paris on July 22, 1794, during the Reign of Terror. She was thirty-five and had remained in France while her husband, Louis Marie de Noailles, was abroad. Her final period was one of imprisonment and revolutionary prosecution, rather than a documented terminal disease. She was held with her mother, Henriette d'Aguesseau, and grandmother, Catherine de Cossé-Brissac, and all three were put to death on the same day. Their shared fate is central to the account, but the women were distinct people and the details of one should not be silently transferred to another. Their remains were buried among the victims at Picpus. The family connection also explains the presence of these losses in the story of her sister Adrienne de Lafayette, who survived the Revolution. The available biography supports the imprisonment, execution date, method, and family group; it does not securely establish every exchange in prison, the exact words spoken at the scaffold, or a continuous hour-by-hour account. Those private scenes remain uncertain.
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