Marquise de Créquy

Charlotte-Victoire de Froullay de Tessé, Marquise de Créquy de Heymont de Canaples d'Ambrières (1699? 1701? 1714? - 1803) was a member of the Créquy family, that counted several distinguished public servants and prelates, in particular in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.^{[citation needed]} The Souvenirs de la Marquise de Créquy, is attributed to her by university librarians.^[1]

Buried in her Souvenirs, which consists mainly of accurate noble genealogies and court gossip from the reigns of Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI, and Napoleon, there is a tale for which the author of the Souvenirs is the sole authority. This story, widely believed in France,^{[citation needed]} is her statement, with a detailed story to back it up, that "God Save the Queen," the British national anthem, was in fact written by Lully and sung by a French girls' school to greet the French king Louis XIV;^{[citation needed]}/ The French author of Souvenirs further states that the tune was later plagiarized by Handel and sold to the British crown as their anthem (Souvenirs, Vol. I, Chapter IV).

If it is true, as some have claimed,^{[citation needed]} that the story about the sale of the anthem is actually from a much later tabloid, then this anachronism is a reason why the author of Souvenirs is sometimes placed in the company of forgers, alongside the authors of such works as the Historia Augusta, Annio of Viterbo, and Richard of Cirencester.^{[citation needed]} If, on the other hand, the French tabloids of the 1850s published the Marquise's story based on her memoirs, it's possible she believed the story to be true, or that the story is true.

References

1. ^ http://penelope.uchicago.edu/crequy/index.shtml

External links

• Souvenirs de la Marquise de Créquy (Original text, in French)
• Brief selections, translated into English

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