Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Verlée, 1761–1835)

Catherine Noël de Talleyrand-Périgord (née Worlée; 21 November 1761 – 10 December 1835) was a French courtesan and noblewoman. Born in India as the daughter of a French Indies Company official, she married George Grand, a clerk of the British East India Company. She had a liaison with Bengal councillor Philip Francis in Calcutta.

In 1782, she relocated to Paris, where she was known as Madame Grand and became a popular courtesan having relationships with several powerful men. She became the mistress and later the wife of French diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, the first Prime Minister of France. Catherine was known for her exceptional beauty, which was captured in her 1783 portrait by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. She was Princess of Benevento by marriage from 1806 until her death.

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