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'''Élisabeth Françoise 'Fanny' Dillon''' (25 July 1785 - 6 March 1836) was a French noblewoman and wife of [[Henri Gatien Bertrand]].
==Birth and Family==
Born at two o'clock in the morning of 25th July 1785 at the [[Gognies-Chaussée|château de Gontreuil]] on the Franco-Belgian border, Élisabeth Françoise was the daughter of the Anglo-Irish French general [[Arthur Dillon (1750–1794)|Arthur Dillon]], commander of the [[Régiment de Dillon (France)|Régiment de Dillon]], and the [[Martinique]] [[creole]] Laure de Girardin de Montgérald.<ref>B. de Gaissart, 'La naissance, le mariage et la mort de Fanny Dillon, Comtesse Bertrand', ''Revue du Nord'' 193 (1967), 333-341. 333.</ref> Both her father and mother had been married before, while her mother had also, when still married to her previous husband, Alexandre-Francois Le Vassor de la Touche de Longpre (1744 - 1779), engaged in an affair with [[Alexandre de Beauharnais]], from which resulted an illegitimate son. Laure was also a maternal cousin of de Beauharnais' wife, [[Empress Joséphine|Rose Tascher de La Pagerie]], who later became the [[Empress Joséphine]].
Through her father, Fanny was a great-great-granddaughter of [[Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield|Charlotte FitzRoy]], illegitimate daughter of [[Charles II of England]].
Fanny's half-siblings, Elisabeth Alexandrine Le Vassor de La Touche de Longpré and [[Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet|Henriette-Lucy Dillon]], married, respectively, [[Duke of Fitz-James|Edward de Fitz-James, duc de Fitz-James]] and Frédéric-Séraphin de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, comte de Gouvernet; while her younger sister, Louise Dillon, married the British naval officer [[Sir Richard Strachan, 6th Baronet|Sir Richard Strachan]].
==Revolution==
Having served as Governor of [[Tobago]] and the representative of [[Martinique]] to the [[Estates-General]], [[Arthur Dillon (1750–1794)|her father]] was guillotined in [[Paris]] as a royalist during the [[Reign of Terror|The Terror]] in 1794 when Fanny was eight years old. During this time she had remained, after Dillon's departure for [[France]], in [[Martinique]] with her mother, who now however determined, upon hearing of her husbands death, to emigrate to [[England]], where the family moved in with Dillon's sister, Lady Frances Jenningham. Fanny then lived as part of the Jenningham household, moving between London and Norwich, until she and her mother returned to [[France]] in 1802, having been encouraged to do so by [[Empress Josephine|Josephine]], the former wife of Laure's lover [[Alexandre de Beauharnais]], now the wife of the [[Napoleon|First Consul]].<ref>[https://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu:168940/datastream/PDF/view| S. L. Delvaux, 'Witness to Glory: Lieutenant-Général Henri Gatien Bertrand, 1791-1815,' PhD thesis, Tallahassee: 2005]. 110-11</ref>
==Marriage==
At the age of twenty-three in 1808 she married general [[Henri Gatien Bertrand]], then aide-de-camp to [[Napoleon]], in a match encouraged by the [[Napoleon|Emperor]] and [[Empress Josephine|Empress]]. Fanny's half-sister, the [[Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet|Marquise de la Tour-du-Pin]], and [[Hortense de Beauharnais]] were charged by [[Napoleon]] with organising the event and, on 16th September 1808, the civil contract was signed in Paris before a religious ceremony, conducted by the Bishop of Nancy, was celebrated in the chapel of Hortense's château de St-Leu the next day; [[Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord|Talleyrand]], [[Géraud Duroc|Duroc]], [[Louis-Alexandre Berthier|Berthier]] and [[Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano|Maret]] acting as witnesses to both.<ref>de Gaissart, 336-7.</ref>
==Exile with Napoleon==
As [[Grand Marshal of the Palace]] since 1813, Bertrand chose to accompany his emperor into exile on [[Elba]] in 1814, where Fanny soon joined him. She later told [[Gaspard Gourgaud|Gourgaud]] that at this time she had been the one to inform Napoleon of Josephine's death.<ref>Gourgaud, ''The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud 1815-1818'', London: 1932. 293</ref> Following [[Battle of Waterloo|Waterloo]], Fanny and her husband followed [[Napoleon]] aboard [[HMS_Bellerophon_(1786)#Napoleon's_surrender|Bellerophon]] and to [[Saint Helena|St Helena]].
==Death==
She died aged fifty in her château de Laleuf, [[Saint-Maur, Indre|St-Maur]], outside [[Châteauroux]], in the evening of 6th March 1836.<ref>de Gaissart, 340.</ref>
==References==
==Birth and Family==
Born at two o'clock in the morning of 25th July 1785 at the [[Gognies-Chaussée|château de Gontreuil]] on the Franco-Belgian border, Élisabeth Françoise was the daughter of the Anglo-Irish French general [[Arthur Dillon (1750–1794)|Arthur Dillon]], commander of the [[Régiment de Dillon (France)|Régiment de Dillon]], and the [[Martinique]] [[creole]] Laure de Girardin de Montgérald.<ref>B. de Gaissart, 'La naissance, le mariage et la mort de Fanny Dillon, Comtesse Bertrand', ''Revue du Nord'' 193 (1967), 333-341. 333.</ref> Both her father and mother had been married before, while her mother had also, when still married to her previous husband, Alexandre-Francois Le Vassor de la Touche de Longpre (1744 - 1779), engaged in an affair with [[Alexandre de Beauharnais]], from which resulted an illegitimate son. Laure was also a maternal cousin of de Beauharnais' wife, [[Empress Joséphine|Rose Tascher de La Pagerie]], who later became the [[Empress Joséphine]].
Through her father, Fanny was a great-great-granddaughter of [[Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield|Charlotte FitzRoy]], illegitimate daughter of [[Charles II of England]].
Fanny's half-siblings, Elisabeth Alexandrine Le Vassor de La Touche de Longpré and [[Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet|Henriette-Lucy Dillon]], married, respectively, [[Duke of Fitz-James|Edward de Fitz-James, duc de Fitz-James]] and Frédéric-Séraphin de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, comte de Gouvernet; while her younger sister, Louise Dillon, married the British naval officer [[Sir Richard Strachan, 6th Baronet|Sir Richard Strachan]].
==Revolution==
Having served as Governor of [[Tobago]] and the representative of [[Martinique]] to the [[Estates-General]], [[Arthur Dillon (1750–1794)|her father]] was guillotined in [[Paris]] as a royalist during the [[Reign of Terror|The Terror]] in 1794 when Fanny was eight years old. During this time she had remained, after Dillon's departure for [[France]], in [[Martinique]] with her mother, who now however determined, upon hearing of her husbands death, to emigrate to [[England]], where the family moved in with Dillon's sister, Lady Frances Jenningham. Fanny then lived as part of the Jenningham household, moving between London and Norwich, until she and her mother returned to [[France]] in 1802, having been encouraged to do so by [[Empress Josephine|Josephine]], the former wife of Laure's lover [[Alexandre de Beauharnais]], now the wife of the [[Napoleon|First Consul]].<ref>[https://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu:168940/datastream/PDF/view| S. L. Delvaux, 'Witness to Glory: Lieutenant-Général Henri Gatien Bertrand, 1791-1815,' PhD thesis, Tallahassee: 2005]. 110-11</ref>
==Marriage==
At the age of twenty-three in 1808 she married general [[Henri Gatien Bertrand]], then aide-de-camp to [[Napoleon]], in a match encouraged by the [[Napoleon|Emperor]] and [[Empress Josephine|Empress]]. Fanny's half-sister, the [[Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet|Marquise de la Tour-du-Pin]], and [[Hortense de Beauharnais]] were charged by [[Napoleon]] with organising the event and, on 16th September 1808, the civil contract was signed in Paris before a religious ceremony, conducted by the Bishop of Nancy, was celebrated in the chapel of Hortense's château de St-Leu the next day; [[Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord|Talleyrand]], [[Géraud Duroc|Duroc]], [[Louis-Alexandre Berthier|Berthier]] and [[Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano|Maret]] acting as witnesses to both.<ref>de Gaissart, 336-7.</ref>
==Exile with Napoleon==
As [[Grand Marshal of the Palace]] since 1813, Bertrand chose to accompany his emperor into exile on [[Elba]] in 1814, where Fanny soon joined him. She later told [[Gaspard Gourgaud|Gourgaud]] that at this time she had been the one to inform Napoleon of Josephine's death.<ref>Gourgaud, ''The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud 1815-1818'', London: 1932. 293</ref> Following [[Battle of Waterloo|Waterloo]], Fanny and her husband followed [[Napoleon]] aboard [[HMS_Bellerophon_(1786)#Napoleon's_surrender|Bellerophon]] and to [[Saint Helena|St Helena]].
==Death==
She died aged fifty in her château de Laleuf, [[Saint-Maur, Indre|St-Maur]], outside [[Châteauroux]], in the evening of 6th March 1836.<ref>de Gaissart, 340.</ref>
==References==
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