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BiographyMarie-Charlotte Hippolyte de Campet de Saujon. (1724-1800) (aka. Countess of Boufflers-Rouverel) Married (1746) to Édouard de Boufflers-Rouverel (d. 1763), Marquis de Boufflers. Mother of Louis Edouard. Mistress of Louis François I de Bourbon, Prince of Conti. She was a friend and correspondent of several literary, musical and philosophical figures of mid-18th century Europe, including Jean-Jacques Rosseau, d'Alembert, Mozart, and, from 1761, David Hume, and she was generally considered one of the greatest ladies of eighteenth-century France, famous for her beauty and intelligence. (Note 1) Life with James Boswell:
Boswell went with Count Boufflers to visit the Countess (the Count's mother) on June 6, 1764.
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