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Name
Marie-Charlotte Hippolyte de Campet de Saujon
Born 1724
Died 1800
Alias
Countess of Boufflers-Rouverel
Biography

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."1

Life with Boswell

Boswell went with Count Boufflers to visit the Countess (the Count's mother) on June 6, 1764.

    Unless otherwise noted, the source for a dated quotation of Boswell's is generally the corresponding volume of the Yale Trade Editions of Boswell's journals.