The Countess of Castiglione , born Virginia Elisabetta Luisa Carlotta Antonietta Teresa Maria Oldoïni , (Florence, March 22nd 1837 - Paris, November 28th 1899), is a famous Italian, main courtesan of Napoleon III. The Countess of Castiglione was more the beautiful woman of her century , says one. She was also an outstanding figure of the first hours of photography.

Biography

Only daughter of the marquis Filippo Oldoïni Rapallini which had married his/her cousin Isabella Lamporecchi, it Marie at the 16 years age, with the count Francesco Verasis de Castiglione (1826-1867), of which it has a fore-mentioned son Giorgio (1855-1879). In 1855, it unloads with Paris of sound native Italy and quickly becomes the mistress of Napoleon III, for purposes to serve in secrecy the interests of the king de Sardaigne Victor-Emmanuel II; but this relation except marriage makes scandal, which obliges her husband to require the divorce. It maintains despite everything with the French Emperor a two years relation (1856 - 57), which opens to him the doors of the private living rooms of Europe, where it will meet large this time: the queen Augusta of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, Otto von Bismarck and some Adolphe Thiers.

Starting from 1856, it becomes one of the regular models of the photographer Pierre-Louis Pierson.

Ground with the operation of courtesan, thanks to her charm and to its extraordinary beauty, it soon will conquer all the courses of Europe, so that, during the Franco-German Guerre of 1870, Napoleon III requires of him to play again of its talents of intermediary and to go to plead personally the cause of the France with close to the Chancellor Prussia Bismarck, so that Paris is not occupied ( It seems that it was made hear… ).

In the Years 1880, it ground in its Parisian hotel located at the 26 of the Place Vendôme, at the shelter of the mirrors, and dark in anonymity and the Depression. It does not leave any more but the fallen night, not to be confronted with the glance that the others relate to the devastations which time subjected to its beauty. She dies in 1899, at the 62 years age; she is buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise to Paris.

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