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Oil on canvas depicting the portrait of Victoire de Lambilly* Countess of Villirouët, the first female lawyer in Brittany and France, who saved her husband the Count of Villirouët during the Revolution by pleading, coats of arms and annotations on gilded wood below, from the early 19th century. With the book "A Woman Lawyer Memoirs of the Countess of Villirouët" by the Count of Bellevue**, 1902.
This painting is in good condition and is of superb quality. Panel with coat of arms of alliance between the family of Villirouët (coat of arms on the left) and that of Lambilly (coat of arms on the right). 'On the III Germinal Year VII, Victoire de Lambilly saved by her eloquence the days of her husband JB Mouësan Count of Villirouët, ex officer in the Condé regiment, Knight of Saint-Louis'.
The autobiographical book that we are attaching to the table is written by the Count of Bellevue, great-grandson of Victoire de Lambilly (see bio below).
This painting comes from the Breton family of La Guerrande, related to the family of La Villirouët by marriage. Thus, the family of La Guerrande, current owner of the castles of La Touraille and Lémo, descends from Count Paul de la Villirouët (1829-1919), mayor of the commune of Augan (Morbihan) between 1871 and 1900. Thus on the death of the count, his possessions passed to his son-in-law Pierre Libault de la Chevasnerie, whose eldest daughter married René de la Guerrande, Count of Hurlières (1891-1964).
Please note: some accidents and losses on the frame, wear and tear on the canvas, see photos
would be the first woman in France to plead before the Military Commission of Paris. Daughter of Pierre de Lambilly, Marquis de Baud-Kerveno, Baron de Kergroix, Viscount du Broutay, and Françoise de La Forest d'Armaillé, she married, on June 12, 1787 in Rennes, Jean Baptiste Mouësan de La Villirouët (1754-1845). She brought as dowry the lordships of Locminé, Moustoir-Ac and Remungol. During the French Revolution, her husband was imprisoned in Lamballe between 1793 and 1795, then arrested again by the revolutionary police and tried in Paris before a military commission in 1799, for desertion, following his emigration during the Revolution. Returning from England, he faced execution. During her trial, Victoire de Lambilly obtained exceptional authorization from the president of the court to defend her husband herself, pleading alone before the commission, and succeeded in obtaining his unanimous acquittal. From 1800, removed from the list of émigrés through Joseph Fouché, the countess's family stayed in Nantouillet. The countess had the opportunity to meet the Empress Joséphine on March 17, 1810 and Napoleon on July 1 of the following year. She is considered the first female lawyer in Brittany and France.
The Marquis de Bellevüe is a local scholar who wrote about fifty historical essays on the regions of Ploërmel and Paimpont. He was born at the Château de la Touraille in Augan on 3 July 1854, from a family of eight children born from the marriage of his father Édouard–Jean Fournier with Aglaë Marie Pauline Victoire Mouësan de la Villirouët. He is therefore the great-grandson of Victoire de Lambilly, Countess of la Villirouët.
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