Madame de Marsan

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Marie Louise Geneviève de Rohan-Soubise (1720 - 1803), Countess de Marsan, Countess de Walhain, was a children's governess in France, teaching Louis XVI, Louis XVIII, Charles X, Madame Élisabeth and Clotilde, queen of Piedmont.

Her parents were Jules François Louis de Rohan, prince de Soubise, lieutenant captain of the gendarmes of the Royal Guard, and Anne-Julie-Adélaïde de Melun. Her parents died in Paris of smallpox in 1724, leaving her and her brother, Charles de Rohan.

In 1736 she married Gaston de Lorraine, Count of Marsan, who died in 1743. They had no children and she died in 1803.