Henriette Poincaré

Henriette Poincaré (born Henriette Adeline Benucci, lived 1858-1943) was the wife of French statesman Raymond Poincaré.[1][3] She was born in Passy, France.[2] Her parents were a coachman of Italian origin, Raphael Benucci, and Louise Mossbauer, a young servant.[4] She served for a time as a companion to old ladies of the bourgeoisie.[4]

Henriette Poincaré[1]
Spouse of the President of France
In office
18 February 1913 – 18 February 1920
PresidentRaymond Poincaré
Preceded byJeanne Fallières
Succeeded byGermaine Deschanel
Personal details
Born
Henriette Adeline Benucci[1]

(1858-05-08)May 8, 1858[1]
Passy, France[2]
DiedMay 19, 1943(1943-05-19) (aged 85)[1]
Paris, France

She was married twice before her marriage to Raymond Poincaré.[2] Her first marriage ended in divorce in 1890; her second marriage ended with her husband's death in 1892.[2] She married Raymond in a civil ceremony in Paris on August 17, 1904.[2] The marriage was secretly solemnized religiously in May 1913, a few months after Raymond was elected to the presidency of France, in their apartment at 10 Rue de Babylone (7th arrondissement of Paris) by the rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris, Mgr. Baudrillart, who had been a high school friend of Raymond's.[5][6][7] When this secret leaked out, it gave the Radicals a way to criticize Raymond.[7] The press also insulted Henriette for her love life.[8]

In 1917, she was surprised in the garden of the Élysée Palace by an orangutan escaped from a circus that was then held at the nearby Rond-Point theater (or possibly, as another version of the incident has it, a chimpanzee escaped from his master's house, his master being a diplomat lodged near the palace).[9]

References
  1. "Henriette Poincaré (1858-1943) - Auteur - Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France" (in French). Data.bnf.fr. 1943-05-19. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  2. J. F. V. Keiger (4 April 2002). Raymond Poincaré. Cambridge University Press. pp. 102–103. ISBN 978-0-521-89216-2.
  3. The Red Cross Bulletin. Bureau of Publications for the Department of Chapters, American Red Cross. 1918. pp. 1–.
  4. François Roth, Raymond Poincaré, Fayard, 2001 (ISBN 2213648093 and 9782213648095)
  5. Paul Allard (1939). The Secrets of the Elysee. Editions de France. ASIN B003OROXAE.
  6. Dominique Frémy, What about the presidents of the Republic ... and the candidates, Robert Laffont, Paris, 1987, p. 321.
  7. J. F. V. Keiger (4 April 2002). Raymond Poincaré. Cambridge University Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-521-89216-2.
  8. Bertrand Meyer-Stabley, Les dames de l'Élysée - Celles d'hier et de demain, Librairie Académique Perrin, Paris.
  9. Bertrand Meyer-Stabley, Les dames de l'Élysée, Perrin, 1999 (ISBN 2262016208) , p. 33
Unofficial roles
Preceded by
Jeanne Fallières		 Spouse of the President of France
1913–1920		 Succeeded by
Germaine Deschanel
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