Catherine Hübscher

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Catherine Lefebvre re-directs here. For the curler, see Catherine Lefebvre (curler)

Catherine Hübscher (Goldbach-Altenbach, 2 February 1753 – 1835)[citation needed] was a First French Empire aristocrat, wife to François Joseph Lefebvre, Marshal of the Empire and Duke de Dantzig.[1]

Catherine Hubscher, Maréchale Lefebvre Duchesse de Dantzig, known as "Madame Sans-Gêne (1753-1835), anonymous artist, c 1810.

Hübscher's life and name have been the subject of the 1893 play Madame Sans-Gêne, by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau. The play was also adapted as an opera, in 1915, and several times for film.[2]

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  1. ^ Watson's Weekly Art Journal. 1895.
  2. ^ Abel, Richard (1994). The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914. University of California Press. pp. 312–313. ISBN 9780520079359.312-313&rft.pub=University of California Press&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=9780520079359&rft.aulast=Abel&rft.aufirst=Richard&rft_id=https://books.google.com/books?id=IOdgiwUlZXIC&pg=PA312&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Catherine Hübscher" class="Z3988">