A chanoinesse of Sainte-Anne de Munich, she was entitled by rank to be called "Madame" and is usually so described, although she never married.
Tott was the subject of a portrait by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and corresponded with Thomas Jefferson.
Tott fled the French Revolution, and between 1801 and 1804 exhibited a handful of portraits at the Royal Academy.
She had returned to France by 1825, when she produced a copy of a portrait of the prince de Condé.
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