page_title: Blanche-Joséphine Le Bascle d'Argenteuil
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Blanche-Joséphine Le Bascle d'Argenteuil / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Portrait de Renée de Maillé de La Tour-Landry (1851-1933), comtesse Jacques de Ganay
context_page_description: Blanche-Joséphine Le Bascle d'Argenteuil, by her second marriage duchess of Maillé, was a French lady of letters and memoir writer. She has left highly interesting memoirs in which her legitimist convictions are shown not to affect the sharpness of her political analysis.
context_section_description: On 2 January 1811, she married Charles de Maillé de La Tour-Landry, 2nd Duke of Maillé (1770–1837). Her husband, who was eighteen years her senior, had been a widower since 1809 following the death of his first wife, Henriette Fitz-James (a daughter of the 5th Duke of Fitz-James). Together, Charles and Blanche lived outside of Paris at the Château de Lormois, and were the parents of two children:
  Jacquelin de La Tour-Landry, 3rd Duke of Maillé (1815–1874), who married Jeanne d'Osmond (1827–1899), a daughter of Gen. Rainulphe d'Osmond, Marquis d'Osmond and Aimée Caroillon des Tillières. From this marriage, the family inherited the Claude Destillières fortune.
  Armand-Urbain de Maillé de La Tour-Landry (1816–1903), who married Jeanne Lebrun de Plaisance, a daughter of the 3rd Duc de Plaisance (himself a grandson of Charles-François Lebrun).
  The Duke of Maillé died on 5 January 1837. The Duchess of Maillé died, accidentally, on 10 September 1851 while staying at the Rochefoucauld's Château de la Roche Courbon.
caption: Portrait of her granddaughter, Renée, the Countess de Ganay, by John Singer Sargent, 1885.
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