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Marie Josephine Louise, Duchesse de Gontaut
Marie Josephine Louise, duchesse de Gontaut (1773-1857) was born in Paris on the 3rd of August 1773, daughter of Augustin François, comte de Montaut-Navailles, who had been governor of Louis XVI and his two brothers when children. The count of Provence (afterwards Louis XVIII) and his wife stood sponsors to Josephine de Montaut, and she shared the lessons given by Madame de Genlis to the Orléans family, with whom her mother broke off relations after the outbreak of the French Revolution.
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