Angélique Victoire, Comtesse de Chastellux

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Angélique Victoire de Durfort-Civrac, Comtesse de Chastellux (December 2, 1752 November 14, 1816) was a French courtier at Versailles and at Bellevue. She was the daughter of Aymeric Joseph de Durfort, Duc de Civrac, and his wife Anne-Marie de La Faurie de Monbadan, and was sister to the Marquise de Donnissan and Jean-Laurent de Durfort-Civrac, Duc de Lorge (1746-1826).

Mlle de Durfort's godmother was the Princess Victoire of France, daughter of Louis XV, and she was raised and educated at the famous school at Saint-Cyr-l'École. Her marriage (1773) to Henri Georges César, Comte de Chastellux took place at Saint-Cyr. Mme de Chastellux bore her husband a son and heir, César Laurent, marquis de Chastellux (1780-1854) and two daughters, Louise Pauline de Chastellux (1781-1857), who became the wife of Joseph Élisabeth Roger, Comte Damas d'Antigny, and Gabrielle Joséphine Simone de Chastellux (1783-1820), the wife of Jean Baptiste Auguste Madeline de Percin, marquis de la Valette Montgaillard.

The comtesse succeeded her mother as dame d'atour to her godmother, Princess Victoire (1786) whilst her husband was granted the post of gentleman-in-waiting. With her court appointments the comtesse had expected to be created a duchesse, but when she learned otherwise, she considered resigning her post. However, due to the entreaties of Victoire and her elder sister, the Princess Adélaïde, she agreed to continue in the royal service, and remained with the princess. The comtesse and her family survived the French revolution and she died in Paris aged sixty-three.