Mélanie de Lasteyrie du Saillant
(1809-1895)
BIRTH
May 16, 1809
PLACE
Courpalay, Seine-et-Marne, France
DEATH
July 1, 1895
PLACE
Paris, Seine, France
FAMILY
MOTHER
Virginie du Motier de Lafayette
(1782-1849)
BROTHER
Marquis de Lafayette
(1757-1834)
SISTER
Adrienne de La Fayette
(1759-1807)
BROTHER
Jules de Lasteyrie
(1810-1883)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mélanie de Lasteyrie du Saillant (1809–1895), also called Françoise Mélanie, was Virginie Lafayette and Louis de Lasteyrie’s daughter and Lafayette’s granddaughter. She married Francisque Tircuy de Corcelle and had children including Marthe, later Marquise de Chambrun. An 1894 American lineage book names her an honorary member of its Lafayette chapter. Compiled genealogy places her birth at La Grange-Bléneau and death in Paris; original registers remain unchecked.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Mélanie de Lasteyrie du Saillant’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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 Mélanie de Lasteyrie du Saillant 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. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Mélanie de Lasteyrie du Saillant died on Jul 1, 1895, in Paris, Seine, France. Mélanie de Lasteyrie du Saillant, also called Françoise Mélanie, was Virginie Lafayette and Louis de Lasteyrie’s daughter and Lafayette’s granddaughter. She married Francisque Tircuy de Corcelle and had children including Marthe, later Marquise de Chambrun. An 1894 American lineage book names her an honorary member of its Lafayette chapter. Compiled genealogy places her birth at La Grange-Bléneau and death in Paris; original registers remain unchecked. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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