Marie Juliette Louvet (9 May 1867 – 24 September 1930)[1] was the lover of the unmarried Prince Louis II of Monaco and the mother of his only child, Princess Charlotte of Monaco.
Marie Juliette Louvet | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 May 1867 Pierreval, Seine-Maritime |
| Died | 24 September 1930 (aged 63) Paris, France |
| Spouse |
Achille Delmaet
(m. 1885–1893) |
| Children | with Achille Delmaet: Georges Delmaet Marguerite Delmaet with Louis II, Prince of Monaco: Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois |
Known as Juliette, Louvet was the daughter of Jacques Henri Louvet (1830–1910) and his first wife, Joséphine Elmire Piedefer (1828–1871).
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, Prince of Monaco and Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy.
Notes
edit- ^ L'Intermediaire des Chercheurs et Curieux, vol. 21 (1971), p. 958: "Marie–Juliette Louvet, née à Pierreval (Seine alors Inférieure) le 9. V. 1867 est décédée à Paris (XVI*) le 29. IX. 1930."
- ^ a b Anne Edwards, The Grimaldis of Monaco (Morrow, 1992), p. 182