Eleanore Grimod [née Franquemont]

(d. 1829)

LBT ID: ElGrimo1829	DIED: 1829
SOURCES: Willard Connely, Count D'Orsay (1952); thePeerage.com
The illegitimate daughter of Karl II Eugen Herzog von Württemberg; in 1799 she became the second wife of Albert Gaspard Grimod, Count D'Orsay; she was the mother of Lady Blessington's Count D'Orsay.
REFERENCES TO Eleanore Grimod [née Franquemont]: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 20 October 1834 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Lady Blessington V Found 1: ¶ 4 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 10 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. XII: 1834