Françoise de Chalus

On 10 July 1749, she married a noble of Spanish descent Don Jean François, 1er duc de Narbonne-Lara Grandee of Spain 1st Class, Lieutenant General of the Army, Commander in Name of the King of the Dioceses of Castres, Albi and Lavaur, 1st Gentleman of the House of H.R.H.

Her spouse was a member of the Spanish entourage of Louise Élisabeth of France, who visited the French court at that time.

According to documents of the Military Archive, her husband Jean François de Narbonne-Lara had been wounded 8 years earlier in the War of the Austrian Succession (1747), becoming from that moment on unable of having any offspring.

She reportedly rivaled with the duchess de Civrac, dame d'honneur of Madame Victoire, in an attempt to distance the two sisters.

[2] In February 1791, she belonged to the large retinue that accompanied Adélaïde and her sister Victoire from France to Rome.