Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles

Anne Claudine Louise d'Arpajon (4 March 1729 in Arpajon, France - 27 June 1794 at Barrière du Trône, Paris [ [http://a.decarne.free.fr/gtoile/pag810.htm Généalogie de Carné] Accessed 8 October 2008] ) was a French noble and first lady of honor to Queens Maria Leszczyńska and Marie Antoinette.

The region of her birth was named Saint-Germain-lès-Châtres, the town of her birth, Châtres, until 1720 when her father, Louis de Sévérac, Marquis d'Arpajon-sur-Cère (1667-1736), bought the Marquisat, and was granted permission by Philippe d'Orléans (acting régent for Louis XV), to rename the region Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon, and the town "Arpajon". [ [http://www.arpajon91.fr/decouvrez-la-ville/histoire-et-patrimoine Arpajon Site Officiel] Accessed 8 October 2008] Her mother, Anne Charlotte Le Bas de Montargis (1695-1767), was lady in waiting of the Duchesse de Berry. She married Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy on 27 November 1741.

Their children:
# Louise Henriette Charlotte Philippine de Noailles (1745–1832)
# Charles Adrien de Noailles (1747), prince de Poix;
# Louis Philippe de Noailles (1748–1750), prince de Poix;
# Daniel François Marie de Noailles (1750–1752), marquis de Noailles later prince de Poix;
# Philippe Louis Marc Antoine de Noailles (1752–1819), prince-duc de Poix and duc de Mouchy;
# Louis-Marie, vicomte de Noailles (1756–1804), vicomte de Noailles;
# Louis Marie de Noailles (1756-?), chevalier d'Arpajon.

She, her husband, his sister, their daughter-in-law (Vicomtesse de Noailles), and their niece (Duchesse d'Ayen) were guillotined. On 22 July, the wife, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter of Philippe's brother, Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, were guillotined. The duc's other granddaughter, Adrienne, wife of the Marquis de Lafayette, was saved by the intervention of America's Minister to France, James Monroe. [ [http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/22/1794-noailles-women-marquise-de-lafayette/ ExecutedToday.com] Accessed 10 October 2008] They and the other nobles who died at the guillotine are buried at Picpus Cemetery; it is also the final resting place of the Marquis and Marquise de Lafayette. [ [http://offbeat-paris.net/12arr.htm Ryan's Paris] Accessed 10 October 2008]

Louis-Marie may have sealed his wife's and parents' fate by launching the "orgy" at the Estates-General, which abolished all privileges, and proposed the abolition of titles and liveries.

Anne d'Arpajon was played by Judy Davis in "Marie Antoinette".

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