Marie Juliette Louvet 1 2
- Born: 9 May 1867
- association: Louis II Grimaldi
- Died: 24 Sep 1930 aged 63
General Notes:
Marie Louvet was the mistress of Prince Louis II of Monaco and was the mother of his only child, Princess Charlotte of Monaco.
Known as Juliette, Louvet was the daughter of Jacques Henri Louvet (1830 - 1910) and his first wife, Joséphine Elmire Piedefer (1828-1871).
She married photographer Achille Delmaet on October 6, 1885 (his best known photographs are nudes of La Goulue, a cancan dancer of the Moulin Rouge). The Delmaets were divorced on January 14, 1893; they had two children, Georges (1884-1955) and Marguerite (1886-1894).
Juliette Louvet became an entertainer of sorts, reportedly a cabaret singer (other sources identify her as a laundress and a dressmaker but in fact, Marie Louvet’s step-mother had been Louis’ laundress in Constantine, Algeria), then was Prince Louis' lover. She gave birth to their daughter, Charlotte, in Algeria on September 30, 1898.
Marie associated with Louis II Grimaldi, son of Albert I Honoré Grimaldi and Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton. (Louis II Grimaldi was born on 12 Jul 1870 in Baden-Baden, Germany and died on 9 May 1949.)
|