Aglaé Louise Ney, Dame du palais de l’impératrice Joséphine

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Aglae Louise Augui was a daughter of a French aristocrat Pierre-Cesar Augui and Adelaide-Henriette Genet, lady-in-waiting of Queen Marie-Antoinette.

• After the suicide of her mother in the days of the Great Terror she was adopted by her maternal aunt, the famous Mme. Campan. The latter introduced the young girl into new high socity, and Aglae becamr a close friend of Napoleon Bonaparte´s wife Josephine, who promoted her marriage with Michel Ney, the celebrated Napoleonic general and from 1804 Marshal of France.
• Mme. Ney outlived her husband for almost 40 years.