comtesse de Louise-Eléonore-Charlotte-Adélaide d'Osmond Boigne

A French aristocrat, salon hostess, and memoirist, she was born Adélaïde Charlotte Louise Éléonore d'Osmond in 1781 at Versailles and died in Paris in 1866. As a child she grew up close to the royal court, then left France with her family during the upheaval of the Revolution before returning to Paris in the Napoleonic era.

After her marriage she became known as the Comtesse de Boigne. She moved in influential social and political circles, and that position gave her an unusually clear view of the people and manners of her time.

She is remembered above all for her memoirs, which look back on France from the late ancien régime through the revolutionary and post-revolutionary decades. Readers still turn to them for their wit, detail, and vivid sense of a society changing around her.