- Partner of Prince Louis II of Monaco
Marie Juliette Louvet was born 9 May 1867 in Pierreval, Normandy, Seine-Maritime, France to Jacques Henri Louvet (1830-1910) and Josephine Elmire Piedefer (1828-1871) and died 24 September 1930 Paris, France of unspecified causes. She married Achille Paul Leonce Delmaet (1860-1914) .
Biography
Marie Juliette Louvet [1] was the lover of the unmarried Prince Louis II of Monaco and the mother of his only child, Princess Charlotte of Monaco.
She married the photographer Achille Delmaet,[2] but they divorced in 1893. They had two children, Georges and Marguerite. Juliette Delmaet became an entertainer of sorts, reportedly a cabaret singer. In 1897, she was a hostess in a Montmartre nightclub when she met Prince Louis of Monaco. She gave birth to their daughter, Charlotte, in Constantine, French Algeria, in 1898, where Louis served in the French Army with a regiment of Chasseurs d'Afrique (African Light Horse), and where she justified her presence at the military barracks as a laundress.[2] Through her daughter she is the maternal grandmother of Rainier III of Monaco (1923-2005)]] and Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy.
House of Grimaldi
Great coat of arms of the House of Grimaldi.
The Grimaldi Family, with few exceptions for enemy occupations, have been primary rulers of Monaco since the 13th Century. Their family ancestry can be easily traced to many of the great noble families of Europe. See Also:
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Charlotte of Monaco (1898-1977) | 30 September 1898 Constantine, Algeria | 15 September 1977 Paris, France | Pierre de Polignac (1895-1964) |
Siblings
Residences
See Also
- Juliette Louvet
- Louvet Family
- Louvet in Normandy
- Louvet in Monaco
External Links
- wikipedia:en:Marie Juliette Louvet
- Marie Juliette Louvet at thePeerage
- Marie Juliette Louvet, Geni.com, https://www.geni.com/people/Marie-Juliette-Louvet/6000000003219727814, retrieved 01 May 2023
- Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 58. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.
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