Marie Juliette Louvet

Marie Juliette Louvet (9 May 1867 – 24 September 1930)[1] was the lover of the then unmarried Prince Louis II of Monaco and was the mother of his only child, Princess Charlotte of Monaco.

Marie Juliette Louvet
Born(1867-05-09)9 May 1867
Pierreval, Seine-Maritime
Died24 September 1930(1930-09-24) (aged 63)
Paris, France
Spouse(s)
Achille Delmaet
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(m. 1885⁠–⁠1893)​
Childrenwith Achille Delmaet:
Georges Delmaet
Marguerite Delmaet
with Louis II, Prince of Monaco:
Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois

Known as Juliette, Louvet was the daughter of Jacques Henri Louvet (1830–1910) and his first wife, Joséphine Elmire Piedefer (1828–1871).

She married the photographer Achille Delmaet,[2] but they divorced in 1893. They had two children, Georges and Marguerite. Juliette Delmaet became an entertainer of sorts, reportedly a cabaret singer. In 1897, she was a hostess in a Montmartre nightclub when she met Prince Louis of Monaco. She gave birth to their daughter, Charlotte, in Constantine, French Algeria, in 1898, where Louis served in the French Army with a regiment of Chasseurs d'Afrique (African Light Horse), and where she justified her presence at the military barracks as a laundress.[2] Through her daughter she is the maternal grandmother of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco and Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy.

Notes
  1. L'Intermediaire des Chercheurs et Curieux, vol. 21 (1971), p. 958: "Marie–Juliette Louvet, née à Pierreval (Seine alors Inférieure) le 9. V. 1867 est décédée à Paris (XVI*) le 29. IX. 1930."
  2. Anne Edwards, The Grimaldis of Monaco (Morrow, 1992), p. 182
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