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Updated: May 17, 2025
He left an only child, Marguerite, who married Henri de Chabot, and whose descendants took the name of Rohan-Chabot. Ablon was a small village upon the Seine, distant about three leagues from the capital, where the Protestants celebrated their worship before they built the church at Charenton, which was subsequently destroyed.
Madame Amenaide was, in fact, no other than the maitresse en titre of the Monsieur de Galgenstein, who had her a great bargain from the Duke de Rohan-Chabot at Paris.
He had a quarrel at the Opera with Chevalier Rohan-Chabot, a court libertine, of little repute; the scene took place in the presence of Mdlle. Adrienne Lecouvreur; the great actress fainted they were separated.
One night at the Opéra the Chevalier de Rohan-Chabot, of the famous and powerful family of the Rohans, a man of forty-three, quarrelsome, blustering, whose reputation for courage left something to be desired, began to taunt the poet upon his birth 'Monsieur Arouet, Monsieur Voltaire what is your name? To which the retort came quickly 'Whatever my name may be, I know how to preserve the honour of it. The Chevalier muttered something and went off, but the incident was not ended.
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