She was born at
Versailles as the daughter of the courtier Guy Joseph de Donnissan and the lady-in-waiting Marie-Françoise de Durfort-Civrac. She was a member of a court family, and the goddaughter of
Madame Victoire. She and her mother left the court after the outbreak of the
French Revolution in 1789, and retired to the family property in the country.
French revolution In 1791, she married her cousin the
marquis de Lescure, with whom she had been engaged since childhood. The couple intended to emigrate in February 1792, but decided to stay in Paris on the request of the queen, and attended the royal court. She describe both the
Demonstration of 20 June 1792 as well as the
Storming of the Tuileries in her memoirs. She and her spouse left Paris before the
September massacres. She accompanied her spouse during the
Revolt in the Vendée. She became a widow in 1793. She left for Spain in 1797.
Later life She was able to return to France in 1799. When a conciliatory policy was adopted, she managed to save much of the property of herself and her late spouse. In 1802, she secondly married , the cousin of her first spouse, and retired with him to her estates, both refusing all offers to serve in any capacity under
Napoleon. She had a daughter, Louise de La Rochejaquelin who was a friend of Georges Sand.In 1814, the couple took an active part in the
Royalist movement in and about
Bordeaux, when her spouse attempted to bring about another Vendan rising for
Louis XVIII, for which he was killed. She died at
Orléans in 1857. ==Memoirs==