Juliette Elise Dubois

Juliette in the 1880s

### Residence(s)

Various, including:* Appartement de Dubois, Paris, French Third Republic (Primary Residence)
* Château de Dubois, Bordeaux, French Third Republic (Countryside Estate)

## Family information

### Family

* Chalont (by birth)
* Dubois (by marriage)

### Immediate

* Henri Lucien Dubois (husband)
* Marie Josephine Dubois (eldest daughter)
* George Henri Dubois (father-in-law) †
* Eléonore Dubois (mother-in-law)
* Robert-Eugène Chalont (father)
* Louise Chalont (mother)

### Extended

* Nicholas Augustus von Delanoringen (son-in-law)
* Roger William von Delanoringen (grandson)
* Hamilton Lee von Delanoringen (grandson)
* Justin Henry von Delanoringen (grandson)
* Ava Elisabeth von Delanoringen (granddaughter)

## Affiliation

### Loyalty

* Dubois family
* Chalont family

**Juliette Elise Dubois** (née **Chalont**) (b. 21 February 1848) is a French socialite, heiress, former model and a member of the prominent Chalont family a French-German noble family by birth, and the renowned Dubois family by marriage. She is the wife of Henri Lucien Dubois, a French politician, writer, vineyard owner, and polymath. She was born into an upper-class family to Robert-Eugène Chalont a physician and minor nobleman and his wife Louise Chalont a famous singer and dancer. Distantly being related to the renowned Chalont family, a wealthy and prominent French family by her paternal side allowed Juliette to receive an excellent education and live a comfortable extravagant lifestyle. She grew up in a happy household where she was often cherished by her mother and father. Juliette (along with her parents) due to being closely aligned with the Second French Empire and the court of Emperor Napoleon III allowed them to enjoy lavish privileges not given to the common working people of France, with Juliette personally working professionally as a fashion model. Described as bright, kind, and with her own personal charm and beauty, she has been widely praised by contemporaries even during the times of the French Third Republic.

Born on the outskirts of the city of Paris on 3 January 1848, during the remaining months of the turbulent and unstable reign of the July Monarchy to Robert-Eugène Chalont a physician and nobleman who had ties to the Ancien Régime, and his wife Louise Chalont a famous singer and dancer. She enjoyed a comfortable early childhood, despite being raised in the turbulent times of the 1850s, with her being raised on the outskirts of Paris due to political turmoil during the post years of the July Monarchy. She was eventually joined by two sisters and was adored/cherished by her parents as a "trophy daughter", with her father often boasting about her to contemporaries. Juliette was an obedient child, and adhered to proper French etiquette, and had traditional attributes expected for a woman of her time. She was also distantly related to the Chalont family a wealthy French-German noble family that had origins during the reign of the Ancien Régime, with her earliest ancestor Georg Phillipe von Chalont being knighted by Louis XIII for his service during the Franco-Spanish War and given additional titles for his role in the Fronde. Seemingly inheriting her father's intelligence, she learned about history, geography, science, mathematics, literature, and the arts personally through many tutors. She also learned languages (as custom for the time) becoming fluent in English, German, alongside her native French and was known to be proficient in Latin and Greek. Due to her family's rather extensive fortune, constant trips around Europe were common allowing her to advance proficiency in languages and develop a wider view on the arts, literature, and culture. She had a natural charm and was falsely rumoured by French High Society to be a seductress in an attempt to ruin her family's vast and standing reputation which was ultimately disproven as false. Later serving as a fashion model for 1860s and 1870s fashion, she enjoyed enormous popularity throughout French High Society circles for her extensive career as a fashion model, and an enchantress. Her family briefly lost their titles, (again) after the fall of the July Monarchy but were later reinstated during the reign of Emperor Napoleon III who regranted them titles and privileges due to her father's service in public service as a physician. Her father was especially close to the emperor and was able to utilize a series of privileges that advanced his (and his family's) rank and legal standing in French High Society which earned him many enemies at court. Because of her father's standing in High Society, he was often in numerous legal battles against everything ranging from false criminal allegations to an extensive stolen art collection by rivals in an attempt to ruin his family's standing. However, her family was largely safe from any major legal harm by a young lawyer by the name of Henri Lucien Dubois.