Maubeuge

Occupation: Domestic staff

Maubeuge was a member of the duchess's domestic staff. No supplementary biographical information has been found for him, but it is likely he had been in service with her for a long time (and had achieved a certain status) since he is one of only two servants to be named by the duchess in any of the Letters. An archival trace has survived of his wife: she committed suicide in 1794.

Appears in these Letters:

1789

8 August: The Duchess Rides Through the Great Fear

The duchess felt trapped in Paris following the Revolutionary events of July 1789. She decided to leave Paris for her provincial estates at Moreuil in...