Hélène de Montgeroult was born on March 2, 1764 in this private mansion located at 17 rue de la Charité in Lyon, opposite the current Musée des Tissus. It has since been separated into several apartments. (Photo Jérôme Dorival – All right reserved)
Places associated with Hélène de Montgeroult
Hélène de Nervo was born 2 March 1764 at the Hôtel de Nervo. This house is located on the rue de la Charité in the 2nd district of Lyons, across from the “Musée des Tissus”. Her family moved to the rue de l’Échiquier in Paris the following year. She married […]
Hélène de Montgeroult’s residences
After the accidental death of her third husband, Count Édouard Dunod de Charnage, in 1826, Hélène de Montgeroult’s health declined. She left Paris in 1834 along with her son, and the two of them settled in Italy, first in Padua, then in Pisa, and finally in Florence, where she died […]
Grave of Hélène de Nervo, Marchionesse de Montgeroult, Countess de ...
This château, located in the village of Montgeroult (Val d’Oise), is one of the properties owned by the Montgeroult couple at the time they lived in a house on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris. They sold the château in 1792. From 1831 until the present day it has been owned […]
Montgeroult’s château
Hélène de Montgeroult bought this property, previously owned by Mr. Villetard, in 1807 or 1808, for 6,000 francs. A nature-lover, she wrote of it in lyrical terms: “In the evening I took a moonlight stroll in my garden and thought of my love, the delights of loving, and the happiness […]