Mme de Brimond

Last Updated: 2025-11-20 Type: Person

Overview

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Basic Information

• Type: people - aristocracy
• Status: Stub entry (automatically generated)

Description

[No description available - stub entry created from diary references]

References in Diary

[Multiple references found - needs research]

Identification and the January 1881 affair (RSR 2026-10-21)

Marie writes the name «Brimont» («la Brimont», «Mme de Brimont», «la mère Brimont»); the Mon Journal t.14 index has «Brimont (Mme de) : 20, 25, 30, 32-34, 41-43, 51, 54, …» and «Brimont (comte de) parent de la précédente : 54, 188». She is a vicomtesse: «le comte de Brimont, parent de la vicomtesse» (090.0512). Her first name is not given.

On 1 January 1881 Marie reports a scandal around her and Émile de Girardin: Mme Gros, widow of Duvergier de Hauranne (index «Gros (Mme) veuve Duvergier de Hauranne»), accuses her of Prussian espionage; Girardin obtains satisfaction in the Chamber; her nephew M. d'Infreville is to fight Mme Gros's husband after a jury d'honneur of Jockey Club members rules that he may act for her, with the comte de Brimont and Paul d'Abzac as seconds (090.0510–0512). No outside account was found (web search 2026-10-21).

• 1881-01-01 (090.0510, 090.0511, 090.0512)

Research Status: Basic Last Updated: 2025-01-23 Diary Coverage: Up to 1881-02-09

A woman in Marie's Parisian social circle during the early 1880s. Marie finds social interactions at Mme de Brimont's gatherings difficult, mentioning occasions where she couldn't find "deux mots de suite" (two words in a row).

Diary References

• February 5, 1881: Marie references difficulties at Mme de Brimont's
• February 9, 1881: Marie visits or mentions Mme de Brimont

Notes

Part of the upper-class Parisian social circle. Further research needed on her identity and salon.

Research Status: Basic Last Updated: 2025-01-23 Diary Coverage: Up to 1880-10-24

Madame de Brimond was a Parisian friend of Marie and her aunt in 1880. Marie describes her as "a charming woman."

On October 24, 1880, when Marie and her aunt couldn't get a carriage due to rain, Mme de Brimond drove them to "number 37" (likely the address of Dr. Potain or another doctor they were consulting).

Marie notes poignantly: "It's a charming woman and I don't go to her house for fear..." - leaving the sentence unfinished but clearly referring to her increasing deafness, which made her terrified of social visits where she might be unable to hear conversation.

Despite Mme de Brimond's kindness and charm, Marie was avoiding social contact with her precisely because of this disability - revealing how Marie's hearing loss was increasingly isolating her from even her closest friends.