Mélanie de Pourtalès
Mélanie de Pourtalès (1836–1914), was an French salonniére and courtier. Her salon was regarded as one of the most famed during the Second French Empire, when she was one of the leading figures within the Paris high society and imperial court life.
She was born to Baron Alfred Renouard de Bussière and Sophie Mélanie de Coehoorn and married the banker count Edmond de Pourtalès (1828-1895) in 1857. She was introduced to the imperial court by the Austrian ambassador Richard Prince von Metternich and appointed lady-in-waiting to the empress Eugénie de Montijo.
References
- Robert Grossmann: Comtesse de Pourtalès. (Une cour française dans l'Alsace impériale 1836 – 1870 – 1914). Préface de Philippe Séguin. La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 1995, ISBN 2-7165-0369-9.
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