How to Pronounce Mélanie de Pourtalès
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Mar 26, 1836 Strasbourg, France Died on 06 May 1914 (aged 78)
French salon-holder
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About Mélanie De Pourtalès
- Mélanie de Pourtalès (1836–1914) was a French salonniére and courtier.
- Her salon was regarded as one of the most famed during the Second French Empire, when she was one of the leading figures in Parisian high society and imperial court life.
- She was born in 1836 in Strasbourg, to Baron Alfred Renouard de Bussière and Sophie Mélanie de Coehoorn.
- In 1857, she married a banker, Count Edmond de Pourtalès (1828-1895).
- She was introduced to the French imperial court by the Austrian ambassador, Richard von Metternich, and appointed as lady-in-waiting to the empress, Eugénie de Montijo.
