Governess o the Childer o Fraunce
The Governess of the Children of France (sometimes the Governess o the Ryal Childer) was office at the ryal French coort during the Pre-Revolutionary Fraunce and the Bourbon Restoration. She was charged with the education o the childer an grandchilder o the monarch. The holder o the office wis taken frae the highest ranking nobility o Fraunce. The governess wis supported bi various deputies or under-governesses (sous gouvernantes).
Governesses o the Childer o FraunceEedit
The Duchess o La Ferté-Senneterre with the Duke o Anjou on her lap and the Duke of Brittany, bi François de Troy.
Engraving o Victoire de Rohan with Madame Royale overlooked bi a painting o Marie Antoinette, unknown artist.
Children of Francis I o FraunceEedit
- Guillemette de Sarrebruck, Coontess o Braine.
Children of Henry II o FraunceEedit
- 1544-1557 : Françoise de Contay (d. 1557), Coontess o Humières, Dame o Contay.
- Marie-Catherine Gondi, 'Madame Duperon' (d. 1570), sous gouvernante (deputy)
- Charlotte de Curton (d. 1575), sous gouvernante (deputy)
- Louise de Clermont (1504-1596), Coontess o Tonnerre an Duchess o Uzès.
- Claude Catherine de Clermont (1543-1603), Duchess o Retz.
Childer o Charles IX o FraunceEedit
- 1572-1578: Isabelle de Crissé.
Childer o Henry IV o FraunceEedit
- 1601-1625 : Françoise de Montglat, Baronne o Montglat (d. 1633)
Childer o Louis XIIIEedit
- 1638-1643: Françoise de Lansac (1583-1657)
- 1643-1646: Marie Catherine de Senecey (1588-1677)
Childer o Louis XIVEedit
- 1661-1664 : Julie d'Angennes, (1607-1671) Duchess o Montausier
- 1661-1672 : Louise de Prie, (1624-1709), Marquise o Toucy, Duchess o Cardona.
Childer o the Grand DauphinEedit
- 1682-1691 : Louise de Prie, (1624-1709), Marquise o Toucy, Duchess o Cardona
Childer o the Duke o BurgundyEedit
- 1709-1710 : Marie Isabelle Gabrielle Angélique de La Mothe-Houdancourt (1654-1726), Duchess o La Ferté-Senneterre.
- 1710-1735 : Charlotte de La Mothe-Houdancourt, (1651-1744), Duchess o Ventadour (sister o the abuin)
Childer o Louis XVEedit
- 1727-1735 : Charlotte de La Mothe-Houdancourt, (1654-1744), Duchess o Ventadour.
- 1735-1754 : Marie Isabelle de Rohan, (1699-1754), Duchess o Tallard.
Childer o Louis, Dauphin o FraunceEedit
- 1735-1754 : Marie Isabelle de Rohan, (1699-1754), Duchess o Tallard.
- 1754-1776 : Marie Louise de Rohan, (1720-1803), Coontess o Marsan.
- 1771-1778: Marie Angélique de Mackau, sous gouvernante (deputy)
Childer o Louis XVIEedit
- 1776-1782 : Victoire de Rohan, (1743-1807), Princess o Guéméné.
- 1782-1789 : Gabrielle de Polastron, (1749-1793), Duchess o Polignac.
- 1789-1792 : Louise Élisabeth de Croÿ, (1749-1832), Marquise o Tourzel.
- 1776-1792: Marie Angélique de Mackau, sous gouvernante (deputy)
- 1781-1792: Renée Suzanne de Soucy, sous gouvernante (deputy)
- 1785-1792: Agathe de Rambaud
Children o Charles Ferdinand, Duke o BerryEedit
- 1819-1830 : Marie Joséphine Louise, Duchess o Gontaut (1773–1857)