Blanche-Joséphine Le Bascle d'Argenteuil

Blanche-Joséphine Le Bascle d'Argenteuil (22 April 1787 – 10 September 1851), by her second marriage duchess of Maillé, was a French lady of letters and memoir writer.

She was born in Tours, and raised in Paris in her family's Hôtel particulier (essentially a grand townhouse) at 85 rue du Faubourg St.

They returned to France in 1797 by her uncle the Charles Joseph Fortuné, Marquis d'Herbouville (husband of her aunt Marie-Louise-Victoire d'Argenteuil) during the French directoire.

[3] With her cousin, the Marquise de Crillon, she founded the "Société du Château" which brought together a group that discussed art, music and literature.

[a] Together, Charles and Blanche lived outside of Paris at the Château de Lormois, and were the parents of two children:[2] The Duke of Maillé died on 5 January 1837.