page_title: Françoise Eléonore Dejean de Manville
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Françoise Eléonore Dejean de Manville / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Françoise Éléonore, marquise de Boufflers
context_page_description: Françoise Eléonore Dejean de Manville, Countess of Sabran and then Marquise of Boufflers, was a French socialite and letter writer whose life extended from the Ancien Régime through the French Revolution and First French Empire to the Bourbon Restoration. She is known for the letters she exchanged with Stanislas de Boufflers, whom she eventually married.
context_section_description: Françoise Eléonore Dejean de Manville was born in Paris on 3 March 1749.
  Her father was Charles Dejean, seigneur de Manville.
  In 1768 Françoise married Joseph de Sabran, comte de Grammont (1702–1775).
  She was 19 and he was 66.
  They had two children, Delphine de Sabran, later Countess of Custine (1770–1826) and Louis-Elzéar de Sabran, who joined the Garde du Corps of Louis XVI of France (1774–1846).
  Françoise was widowed in 1775 at the age of 26.
  In 1777 the Prince de Ligne introduced Françoise to the Chevalier Stanislas de Boufflers (1738–1815).
  Boufflers was a brilliant and seductive literary man, and a member of the  Knights of Malta.
  Their relationship began as a playful friendship.
  They became lovers in May 1781, and were not secretive about their union.
  He could not leave the Knights of Malta without forfeiting his ecclesiastical benefits, and chose to continue a rather mediocre military career with the Knights.
  Françoise maintained a correspondence with Boufflers during his stay in Senegal, which gives abundant information about life in 18th century Senegal and the way the colony was organized.
  In 1797 Françoise finally married Boufflers, in Breslau.
  Due to the French Revolution, when they finally married they had both lost their fortunes.
  They settled in the country near to Paris.
  Boufflers died in 1815.
  Françoise died in Paris on 27 February 1827 at the age of 77.
  Her body is in the 11th division of the Père Lachaise Cemetery in the Delille enclosure, beside her husband, where it was moved in 1846.
caption: Françoise Éléonore de Boufflers
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