Salviati (Mme Gaston de Larderel, née Salviati)
Also known as: Salviati, Madame Gaston de Larderel, la femme à Gaston
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The tag is used for the wife of Count Gaston de Larderel, Alexandre's elder brother: «la comtesse de Larderel, née Salviati» (071.0071). thepeerage.com p8752 names her Isabella Salviati, daughter of Duke Scipione Salviati and Arabelle de Fitzjames, and mother of Count Francesco Larderel. Marie gives the same parentage: «sa mère est française (Fitz James) et son père est le duc Salviati second fils du prince Borghèse» (073.0342).Relevance to Marie
- «son frère a épousé une Salviati» is one of the reasons Marie forgives herself her weakness for Alexandre (071.0110).
- Florence, May 1877: she watches Gaston's wife at the Cascine (071.0071), in a four-in-hand (071.0215), on the grandstand at the races (071.0232), and overhears her describing Blanche's hair (071.0218). On 11 May she sees «Gaston et sa femme» at a charity concert (071.0266); on 25 May she imagines «la femme à Gaston mourra et j'épouserai Gaston» (071.0454).
Identity note
The Mon Journal t.10 index calls her «Blanche, comtesse de Larderei, épouse de Gaston, née Salviati», but Blanche is Gaston's sister, Mme de Mirafiore (see Blanche; ledger).References in Diary
- 1877-04-29 (071.0071), 05-02 (071.0110), 05-09 (071.0215, 0217), 05-10 (071.0232), 05-11 (071.0266), 05-25 (071.0454); 1877-08-08 (073.0342)
See also Gaston de Larderel, Larderel.
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