Title
Comtesse Emilie-Louise Marie Chamans de Lavalette
Caption
Emilie-Louise Marie Chamans, Comtesse de Lavalette (1781-1855), wife of Comte de Lavalette, French politician and Napoleonic general, and niece of Josephine Beauharnais. In 1815 she saved husband's life by changing clothes with him and enabling him to escape from prison shortly before due to be executed under the second Bourbon restoration.
Stipple engraving from "History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution..." by CH Gifford (London, 1817).
Date
1817
Credit line
Photo12/Ann Ronan Picture Library
Reference
ARP07111_009515P
License type
Rights managed
Available size
28,9Mb (2,9Mb) / 9,5in x 11,8in / 2853 x 3543 (300dpi)