François-Abraham-Marie Mouchard, Seigneur de la Garde
Mother
Anne-Louise Lazur
Marie-Anne-Françoise Mouchard de la Garde better known as Fanny de Beauharnais (4 October 1737, Paris – 2 July 1813), was a French lady of letters and salon-holder. She was the mother of French politician Claude de Beauharnais. She was the grandmother of Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden, and through her she is the ancestor of the former royal families of Romania and Yugoslavia, and the present royal families of Belgium, of Luxembourg and of Monaco.
She wrote poetry from her childhood onwards and, after separating from her husband, devoted herself to literature, became friends with literary figures such as Claude Joseph Dorat and Michel de Cubières-Palmézeaux. Her salon became a choice social venue, and she became a member of the Académie des Arcades.
In 1787 she wrote and put on a five-act prose comedy entitled la Fausse inconstance, though it was not a success. In 1790 she was received into the Académie de Lyon.
Françoise de Beauharnais (La Rochelle, 7 September 1757 – Sézanne, 24 June 1822), married on 1 May 1778 her first cousin François VI de Beauharnais, 2nd marquis de La Ferté-Beauharnais, 3rd comte des Roches-Baritaud, baron de Beauville, seigneur de Beaumont et de Bellechauve (La Rochelle, 2 August 1756 – Paris, 3 March 1846)
Anne de Beauharnais (1760–1831)
Works
Mélanges de poésies fugitives et de prose sans conséquence (Paris, 1772, 2 vol. in-8°)
Lettres de Stéphanie, historical novel (Paris, 1773, in-8°)
l’Abailard supposé, novel (Paris, 1780, in-8°)
l’Île de la Félicité, philosophical poem (1801, in-8°)
le Voyage de Zizi et d’Azor, poem in 5 books (1811, in-8°).
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