Amable Gabrielle de Noailles

Amable Gabrielle de Noailles, Duchess of Villars (18 February 1706 – 1771), was a French court official.

She had no children with her husband, who was homosexual, but did have one daughter with Jean Philippe d'Orléans, himself the son of Philippe II, duc d'Orléans and Marie Louise Madeleine Victoire Bel de La Boissière d'Argenton.

Named Amable Angélique de Villars (1723-1771), she was accepted by her husband and raised as his daughter.

She was appointed dame du palais to the charitable Queen Marie Leszczyńska in 1727 and became one of her close friends and confidant and often assisted Marie on her numerous philanthropic work outside Versailles such as giving alms to the poor and visiting the sick in the various parishes.

However, Mailly did secure de Villars' former office of dame du palais.