Claire de VERGENNES, Countess de RÉMUSAT, woman of letters. Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes, Comtesse de Rémusat (1780-1821), was a woman of letters, memorialist and epistolary writer, lady of the palace of Empress Joséphine. She was the daughter of Charles Gravier de Vergennes, adviser to the Parliament of Burgundy, Master of Requests, Intendant of Auch, then Director of Taxation in Paris, and of Adélaïde de Bastard, daughter of an adviser to the Parliament of Toulouse. She is the grand-niece of Charles Gravier de Vergennes who was a great minister of Louis XVI. During the Revolution, her father, falsely accused of emigration, and her grandfather were guillotined on July 24, 1794. She married on February 9, 1796 Auguste Laurent Comte de Rémusat, a politician - Letter A.S. Concerning General Gentil signed " Vergennes Rémusat ". Undated: "General GENTIL make me say today that he does not owe the Tax of the doors and windows, Sir. My husband on leaving put on the note that he had to owe it...".