Bonne Marie Félicité de Montmorency-Luxembourg
Bonne Marie Félicité de Montmorency-Luxembourg, Duchesse de Serent (February 18, 1739 – July 3, 1823), was a French courtier.
She was born to duke Charles Anne Sigismond de Montmorency-Luxembourg and Marie-Etiennette de Bullion de Fervaques, and married marquis Armand-Louis de Sérent in 1754. She had four children. She served as dame d'atour to Princess Élisabeth of France in 1776-1792. She was described as forceful and pious and as a convinced autocrat royalist.
When the exile court of the Bourbons established in Mitau in Courland in 1799, she was among those loyalist to attend the wedding between Marie Thérèse of France and her cousin the duke of Angouleme. In 1814, she returned to France with the Bourbon family.
She served as dame d'honneur (Mistress of the Robes) to Marie Thérèse of France from 1799 to 1823. She was succeeded as dame d'honneur by her daughter Anne-Félicité Simone de Sérent, married to duke Étienne-Charles de Damas-Crux, who had prior served as her deputy.
References
- Philip Mansel: The Court of France 1789-1830