Early Life
Her mother died in childbirth, and after her father remarried, she was educated at the Convent of the Visitation at Saint-Denis, by Mme d'Héricourt. At the age of fourteen, she was educated by her stepmother, Mme d'Aguesseau de Fresnes:
She preferred reading and gardening--into which latter skill she had been initiated, in the park at Fresnes, by her grandfather the chancellor. His death in 1750 came as a dreadful shock to her. She had adored the courteous and attentive old gentleman.
After the death of her grandfather, Henri François d'Aguesseau, she became an heiress. She was married to Jean-Paul-François de Noailles on 25 February 1755. The arranged marriage had been worked out by Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, who had worked with Chancellor d'Aguesseau.
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