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Elisabeth Agnès Jacoba de Nassau La-Lecq - Madame Spaen

Biography


Birth: 1724
Death: 1798

Daughter of Willem Hendrik van Nassau La-Lecq (d. 1762), and Adriana Jacoba Noiret (1699-1724). Married (1749) to Alexander Sweder.

Also known as

  • Madame Spaen

Life with James Boswell

Boswell visited Baron and Madame Spaen at the Hague on December 20, 1763. He recorded a part of their dinner conversation, available in Boswell in Holland 1763-64. Boswell corresponded with her regularly until 1773.

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Elisabeth Agnès Jacoba de Nassau La-Lecq is mentioned in:

  • Boswell in Holland 1763-1764

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