Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé

In 1887, she was a recipient of the Montyon Prize from the Académie Française, for the biography, Madame Élisabeth, sœur de Louis XVI.

[3] She began to publish in 1864 with a study on the Queen of France, Marie Leszczyńska, wife of King Louis XV, which earned her the privilege of an article by the French literary critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve.

[3][4] She then continued with several other works on French noble women: Catherine de Bourbon, sister of King Henri IV, in 1865; Marie Antoinette and her daughter, Marie-Thérèse, in 1870; Élisabeth of France (known as Madame Elisabeth), in 1886, for which she received an award from the French Academy; Jeanne-Sophie de Vignerot du Plessis (known as Septimanie d'Egmont), in 1890; and finally, Désirée Clary, in 1897.

[7] Pauline and Victor had six children, including Maurice (1875–1960), an experimental physicist, and Louis (1892-1987), who would win the Nobel Prize in Physics (1929).

[8] The Spanish flu pandemic broke out in 1918 and d'Armaillé died of the consequences of this illness,[5] on 7 December of the same year,[9] then aged 88,[2] in her home in the Square de Messine (now, rue du Docteur-Lancereaux) in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.