Great-granddaughter of the Marquis Joseph Antoine Sosthènes d'Armand de Chateauvieux, she headed the large agricultural estate which was established by the Marquis in the Hauts of the commune of Saint-Leu, when her father Georges died in 1961.
In 1965, de Chateauvieux became the first woman mayor of the department of Réunion.
She succeeded Henri Bègue, who asked her to replace him as mayor of Saint-Leu.
Her family-owned estate properties, but sold them out to be transformed into the National Botanical Conservatory of Mascarin in the early 1990s.
[3] De Chateauvieux died on April 12, 2017, in Paris, a few days before her 102nd birthday.