Aglaé Auguié


Aglaé Auguié, was a French court official and wife of the senior army commander Marshal of the Empire Ney.

Early life

Aglaé was born in Paris on 24 March 1782. She was a daughter of Pierre César Auguié and Adélaïde Henriette Genet.
Her aunt was Henriette Campan and uncle was Citizen Genêt.

Court

She served as lady-in-waiting to Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais in 1804–1810, and to Empress Marie Louise in 1810-1813. She was a close friend of Hortense de Beauharnais, Napoléon I's stepdaughter who married his brother, Louis Bonaparte, who had been made King of Holland.

Personal life

She married Michel Ney at Thiverval-Grignon on 5 August 1802. Together, they had four sons:
After the execution of her first husband, she secretly married Brigadier General Marie Louis Jules d'Y de Résigny in Italy in 1816. Another officer with Napoleon, he had been imprisoned in Malta until August 1816.
She died in Paris on 2 July 1854.