# Louise Ward

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{{Short description|French painter (1849{{ndash}}1930)}}
{{Infobox person
| name          = 
| image         =Raimundo Madrazo - PORTRAIT DE LA MARQUISE D'HERVEY, ASSISE.jpg 
| alt           = 
| caption       = 1885 portrait by [Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta](/source/Raimundo_de_Madrazo_y_Garreta)
| birth_name    = 
| birth_date    = 9 July 1849
| birth_place   = [Parma, Italy](/source/Parma%2C_Italy)
| death_date    = 11 February 1930
| death_place   = Paris, France
| other_names   = {{Unbulleted list|Louise Dubréau|Louise Dubreau|Louise de Ward|Marquise d'Hervey de Saint-Denys|Marquise d'Hervey de Saint-Denis|Louise de Waru|Madame de Waru|Comtesse de Waru}}
| occupation    = Painter
| years_active  = 1875–1899<ref>{{cite web |title=Dubreau, Louise |url=https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=500299181&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500299181 |website=[Getty Research Institute](/source/Getty_Research_Institute) |access-date=28 November 2025}}</ref>
| spouse        = {{marriage|[Marie-Jean-Léon, Marquis d'Hervey de Saint Denys](/source/Marie-Jean-L%C3%A9on%2C_Marquis_d'Hervey_de_Saint_Denys)|1868|1892|end=died}}<br/>{{marriage|[Jacques de Waru](/source/Jacques_de_Waru)|1896|1911|end=died}}
| known_for     = 
| notable_works = 
}}

'''Louise Ward''', sometimes rendered '''Louise de Ward'''<ref name="grandes dames">{{cite book |last1=Vento |first1=Claude |title=Les grandes dames d'aujourd'hui |date=1886 |publisher=Dentu |pages=359–366 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5QIYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA359 |chapter=La Marquise d'Hervey de Saint-Denis |trans-title=The Great Ladies of Today}}</ref> (9 July 1849 – 11 February 1930),<ref name=geneanet/> known in the art world by her pseudonym '''Louise Dubréau''' or '''Louise Dubreau''', was a French painter and Parisian society belle.

She was married twice: in 1868 to the [Marquis d'Hervey de Saint Denys](/source/Marie-Jean-L%C3%A9on%2C_Marquis_d'Hervey_de_Saint_Denys), who died in 1892, and in 1896 to Count [Jacques de Waru](/source/Jacques_de_Waru), who died in 1911. [Marcel Proust](/source/Marcel_Proust), in his ''[In Search of Lost Time](/source/In_Search_of_Lost_Time)'', based the character of the Princesse d’Orvillers, also called the Princesse de Nassau, on her.

==Early life and education==
Ward was born on 9 July 1849<ref name="geneanet"/> in [Parma, Italy](/source/Parma%2C_Italy),<ref name="geneanet"/>{{#tag:ref|Some French sources, dating from 1877 or thereafter, state that she was born in Vienna,<ref name="Explication"/> where her father had been sent in 1849 by the [Duke of Parma](/source/Duke_of_Parma) as minister-plenipotentiary to represent the duchy, and where Emperor [Franz Joseph I](/source/Franz_Joseph_I) conferred on him the Austrian title of Baron.<ref name="Ruvigny"/>|group=lower-alpha}} where her father had been stationed as chief minister of the [Duke of Parma](/source/Duke_of_Parma).<ref name="Ruvigny">{{cite book |editor1-last=Marquis de Ruvigny |title=The Nobilities of Europe |date=1909 |publisher=Melville and Company |location=London |pages=168–169 |url=https://ia904602.us.archive.org/3/items/nobilitiesofeuro01ruviuoft/nobilitiesofeuro01ruviuoft.pdf#page=194}}</ref> ''[Burke's Peerage](/source/Burke's_Peerage)'' of 1850 and thereafter indicates that her birth name was '''Elizabeth Margaret Ward'''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, ''Volume 10; Volume 12'' |date=1850 |publisher=[Burke's Peerage Limited](/source/Burke's_Peerage_Limited) |page=1098 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CFVQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1098}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=[Burke's Peerage](/source/Burke's_Peerage) |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire |date=1858 |publisher=[H. Colburn](/source/Henry_Colburn) |page=1118 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R9pSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1118}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|French sources, which all date from her 1896 second marriage and thereafter, give her name as Louise Marguerite Elisabeth Ward.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Révérend |editor1-first=Albert |title=Annuaire de la Pairle et de la Noblesse de France, des Maisons Souveraines de l'Europe et de la Diplomatie |date=1897 |publisher=[E. Plon, Noirrit et cie.](/source/Plon_(publisher)) |page=458 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejs7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA458}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Révérend |first1=Albert |title=Titres, Anoblissements et Pairies de la Restauration 1814-1830, ''Volume 4'' |date=1904 |publisher=[Honoré Champion](/source/Honor%C3%A9_Champion) |page=257 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DYXUAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA257}}</ref>|group=lower-alpha}}

She was an Austrian baroness who was the daughter of Baron [Thomas Ward](/source/Thomas_Ward%2C_Baron_Ward)<ref name="geneanet">{{cite web |title=Louise Ward |url=https://gw.geneanet.org/pierfit?lang=en&n=ward&p=louise |website=[Geneanet](/source/Geneanet) |access-date=12 November 2025}}</ref><ref>[http://canadp-archivesenligne.paris.fr/archives_etat_civil/1860_1902_actes/aec_visu_img.php?registre=V4E_00934&type=AEC&&bdd_en_cours=actes_ec_1860_1870&vue_tranche_debut=AD075EC_V4E_00934_0064&vue_tranche_fin=AD075EC_V4E_00934_0094&ref_histo=10041&cote=V4E%20934 "mariage act {{p.|10/31}}"]</ref>{{#tag:ref|Several published sources state that Ward was said to be the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Parma.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fouquières |first1=André Becq de |title=Mon Paris et ses Parisiens, ''Vol. I'' |date=1953 |publisher=Pierre Horay |location=Paris |pages=104–105 |language=French |quote=Le fils de ce couple fort austère, Jacques, devait contracter mariage avec une très belle et très fortunée personne, son aînée de plus de quinze ans, qui passait pour être la fille naturelle du dernier duc de Parme, et qui était la veuve d'un membre de l'Institut, professeur au Collège de France, le marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys. ... La nouvelle Mme de Waru ne fut jamais reçue rue Lincoln, mais le Monde lui fut moins sévère que sa belle famille et je me souviens l'avoir maintes fois rencontrée à la chasse, dans les tirés de Dampierre où elle était l'hôte du duc de Luynes. L'auteur de Swann, si friand de scandales mondains, n'a pas manqué d'épingler dans son album Mme de Waru à qui il fait allusion en divers passages de son ouvrage. |trans-quote=The son of this very austere couple, Jacques, contracted to marry with a very beautiful and very wealthy woman, more than fifteen years his senior, who was said to be the [natural daughter](/source/natural_child) of the last Duke of Parma, and who was the widow of a member of the Institute, professor at the Collège de France, the Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys. ... The new Madame de Waru was never received on Rue Lincoln, but le Monde was less harsh on her than her in-laws, and I remember meeting her many times while hunting, in the outings at Dampierre where she was the guest of the Duke of Luynes. The author of Swann, so fond of society scandals, did not fail to include Madame de Waru in his album, to whom he alludes in various passages of his work.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Villoteau |first1=Pierre |title=La vie parisienne à la Belle époque |date=1968 |publisher=Cercle du bibliophile |page=112 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LRgQAQAAIAAJ&q=%22la+fille+naturelle+du+dernier+prince+r%C3%A9gnant+de+Parme%22}}</ref><ref name="G. Painter">{{cite book |last1=Painter |first1=George D. |title=Marcel Proust: A Biography |date=1977 |publisher=Harmondsworth: Penguin |page=150 |isbn=978-0-14-055131-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/marcelproustbiog0000pain_s9e9/page/150/mode/1up}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Girod de L'Ain |first1=Gabriel |title=Les Thellusson: histoire d'une famille du XIVe siècle à nos jours |date=1977 |publisher=G. Girod de l'Ain |page=287 |url=https://archive.org/details/lesthellussonhis00giro/page/287/mode/1up?q=Ward}}</ref> At least one French society chronicle said that as an infant, she was baptized by the Duke and Duchess of Parma.<ref name="grandes dames"/><ref name="Monaci"/> Likewise, Marcel Proust's character based on her, the princess d'Orvillers (later called the Princess of Nassau), is described in his ''[Sodom and Gomorrah](/source/Sodom_and_Gomorrah_(book))'' (1921) as "said to be the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Parma".<ref name="Monaci"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mension-Rigau |first1=Eric |title=L'ami du prince: Journal inédit d'Alfred de Gramont (1892-1915) |date=2011 |publisher=[Fayard](/source/Fayard) |isbn=9782213665023 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9W-PBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT48}}</ref><ref name="G. Painter"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Proust |first1=Marcel |author1-link=Marcel Proust |title=Le côté de Guermantes, II; Sodome et Gomorrhe, I |date=1921 |publisher=Éditions de la Nouvelle revue française |location=Paris |page=127 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Jnx8H661XIC&pg=RA1-PA127}}</ref>|group=lower-alpha}} and his wife Louise Genthner, a Viennese commoner whom Thomas Ward had married in 1832.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Myers |first1=Jesse |title=Baron Ward and the Dukes of Parma |date=1938 |publisher=[Longmans, Green & Co.](/source/Longmans%2C_Green) |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9cVQAQAAMAAJ&q=%22louise+genthner%22}}</ref>

She was educated in a [convent school](/source/convent_school) in France.<ref name="grandes dames"/>

==Career==
After her marriage to a French marquis in 1868,<ref name="geneanet"/> Ward became an accomplished and successful painter in Paris, studying with [Pierre Auguste Cot](/source/Pierre_Auguste_Cot).<ref name="grandes dames"/> She signed her paintings "Louise Dubréau",<ref name="grandes dames"/> sometimes rendered "Louise Dubreau"<ref name="geneanet"/><ref name="Truth">{{cite book |title=Truth, ''Volume 15'' |date=1884 |publisher=[Truth](/source/Truth_(magazine)) |page=343 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V2FY5RJgNLAC&pg=PA343}}</ref><ref name="Cham">{{cite book |last1=Ribeyre |first1=Félix |title=Cham: sa vie et son oeuvre |date=1884 |publisher=[E. Plon, Noirrit et cie.](/source/Plon_(publisher)) |page=155 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fw4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155}}</ref> or "Louise du Bréau",<ref name="Correspondant"/> after her husband d'Hervey's estate Château du Bréau near [Dourdan](/source/Dourdan)<ref name="grandes dames"/> in [Seine-et-Oise](/source/Seine-et-Oise)<ref name="siecle"/><ref>{{cite book |title=Mémoires de la Société d'Ethnographie, ''Volume 12'' |date=1874 |publisher=Société d'Ethnographie |page=235 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pXFhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA235}}</ref> in the department of [Yvelines](/source/Yvelines).<ref name="siecle">{{cite book |last1=Bergère |first1=Marie-Claire |title=Un siècle d'enseignement du chinois à l'École des langues orientales |date=2020 |publisher=L'Asiathèque |isbn=9782360571581 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=227oDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT101}}</ref>

Two of her best-known paintings are ''The Old Lodger'' (1877), which was exhibited at the [Salon de 1877](/source/Salon_(Paris))<ref name="Explication"/> and auctioned at [Christie's](/source/Christie's) in 2008;<ref>{{cite web |title=Louise Dubreau (French, 19th century): The Old Lodger |url=https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5118523 |website=[Christie's](/source/Christie's) |access-date=15 November 2025}}</ref> and ''Printemps'' (1882), which was exhibited at the [Salon de 1882](/source/Salon_(Paris)).<ref name="Salon 1882">{{cite book |title=Catalogue illustré du Salon, 1882 |date=1882 |publisher=Baschet |page=xxxiii |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w0CN0z-ODkUC&pg=PP37}}</ref>

Her painting ''Chanteuse des rues'' (Street Singer) was exhibited at the [Salon de 1878](/source/Salon_(Paris)).<ref name="Explication"/> In a lengthy review, ''[Le Correspondant](/source/Le_Correspondant)'' described the singer as clearly dejected and abandoned, and it praised Ward's delicately nuanced depiction.<ref name="Correspondant"/> The ''Revue du Monde Catholique'' described the depiction as evoking the same feelings as the poor young girls that [Alexandre Antigna](/source/Alexandre_Antigna) enjoyed painting, stating "one feels pity for her and would offer her help if one were to encounter her".<ref>{{cite book |title=Revue du Monde Catholique |date=1878 |publisher=Société Générale de Librairie Catholique |location=Paris |page=354 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DcUjZvfPD4QC&pg=PA354 |chapter=Le Salon de 1878}}</ref> Ward's ''Jeanne d'Arc'' ([Joan of Arc](/source/Joan_of_Arc)) was exhibited at the [Salon de 1879](/source/Salon_(Paris)),<ref name="S1879"/> and was described as charming and as emphasizing candor and devotion.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baignères |first1=Arthur |title=Gazette des beaux-arts: la doyenne des revues d'art, ''2e périod'' |date=1879 |publisher=[Gazette des Beaux-Arts](/source/Gazette_des_Beaux-Arts) |location=Paris |page=56 |url=https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/gba1879_2/0043/image,info |access-date=9 December 2025 |chapter=Le Salon de 1879 |doi=10.11588/diglit.22840.5 |format=PDF}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Baignères |first1=Arthur |title=Gazette des beaux-arts: la doyenne des revues d'art, ''2e périod'' |date=1879 |publisher=[Gazette des Beaux-Arts](/source/Gazette_des_Beaux-Arts) |location=Paris |page=56 |url=https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/gba1879_2/0064/text_ocr |access-date=9 December 2025 |chapter=Le Salon de 1879|format=webpage}}</ref>

Ward's portrait of her husband, the Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys, was exhibited at the [Salon de 1881](/source/Salon_(Paris)).<ref>{{Cite book |editor=F.-G. Dumas |url=http://archive.org/details/catalogueillustr1881soci |title=Catalogue illustré du Salon |date=1881 |location=Paris |publisher=L. Baschet |page=XIX}}</ref> Her portrait of [Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust](/source/Count_Friedrich_Ferdinand_von_Beust) was widely praised and was exhibited at the [Salon de 1883](/source/Salon_(Paris)).<ref name="RDDM 1883">{{cite book |title=Revue des deux mondes, ''Volumes 57-58'' |date=1883 |publisher=Bureau de la Revue des deux mondes |page=617 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QY4FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA617}}</ref><ref name="Dictionnaire Véron">{{cite book |last1=Véron |first1=Théodore |title=Dictionnaire Véron, ou, Organe de l'Institut universel des sciences, des lettres et des arts du XIXe siècle (Section des Beaux-Arts): Salon de 1883 |date=1883 |publisher=M. Bazin |location=Paris |page=149 |url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Dictionnaire_V%C3%A9ron_-_ou_organe_de_l%27Institut_universel_des_sciences%2C_des_lettres_et_des_arts_du_XIXe_si%C3%A8cle_-_%28Section_des_Beauz-Arts%29_-_Salon_de_1883_%28IA_dictionnairevero00vero_1%29.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Cham"/>

==Personal life==
In 1868, at the age of 18, she married French [sinologist](/source/sinologist) [Marie-Jean-Léon, Marquis d'Hervey de Saint Denys](/source/Marie-Jean-L%C3%A9on%2C_Marquis_d'Hervey_de_Saint_Denys).<ref name="geneanet"/> Her title became Marquise d'Hervey de Saint-Denys, sometimes rendered Marquise d'Hervey de Saint-Denis.<ref name="grandes dames"/> The couple lived in Paris in their mansion at 9 Avenue Bosquet.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Genève |first1=Pierre |title=MARIE JEAN LÉON D'HERVEY Marquis de Saint-Denys |url=https://www.science-et-magie.com/archives02num/sm55/5510hervey.htm |website=science-et-magie.com |access-date=9 October 2025 |date=1992}}</ref><ref name="grandes dames"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Darmsteter |first1=James |title=RAPPORT ANNUEL FAlT À LA SOCIÉTÉ ASIATIQUE, DANS LA SÉANCE DU 27 JUIN 1884 |url=https://tpsalomonreinach.mom.fr/files/original/543aba03b012e699a6004e80c42ca6373b96b4df.pdf |website=tpsalomonreinach.mom.fr |access-date=9 October 2025 |page=155 |date=1884}}</ref>

In Paris, Ward became a society belle (''mondaine'')<ref name="grandes dames"/><ref name="Britannique">{{cite book |title=Revue Britannique: Choix d'articles traduits des meilleurs écrits périodiques de la Grande-Bretagne. 1886, ''Volume 1886, Issue 3'' |date=1886 |publisher=Revue Britannique |page=82 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NtlVanMmcNsC&pg=PA82}}</ref> and a grande dame,<ref name="grandes dames"/> and was known as a great beauty.<ref name="Britannique"/><ref name="Truth"/><ref name="Correspondant">{{cite book |title=Le Correspondant, ''Volume 111'' |date=1878 |publisher=[Le Correspondant](/source/Le_Correspondant) |page=803 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G9TOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA803}}</ref><ref name="grandes dames"/> [Marcel Proust](/source/Marcel_Proust), in his multi-volume novel series ''[In Search of Lost Time](/source/In_Search_of_Lost_Time)'', based the Princesse d’Orvillers,<ref name="Gramont"/> also known as the Princesse de Nassau,<ref name="Monaci">{{cite journal |last1=Monaci |first1=Ludovico |title=La Marquise d'Hervey de Saint-Denys dans la ''Recherche'': Une Tromperie Mondaine sous le Changement Onomastique? |url=https://innt.it/innt/article/view/871/798 |website=Il Nome nel testo – Rivista internazionale di onomastica letteraria |access-date=3 December 2025 |language=French |doi=10.4454/iNnt.innt.v24.871 |date=8 November 2022 |trans-title=The Marquise d'Hervey de Saint-Denys in the ''Search'': A deception of society under the change of name? |issue=2022: XXIV |pages=145–156 }}</ref> on her.<ref name="Gramont">{{cite book |last1=Mension-Rigau |first1=Eric |title=L'ami du prince: Journal inédit d'Alfred de Gramont (1892-1915) |date=2011 |publisher=[Fayard](/source/Fayard) |isbn=9782213665023 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9W-PBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT48}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Yu |first1=Pauline |editor1-last=Kroll |editor1-first=Paul W. |title=Reading Medieval Chinese Poetry: Text, Context, and Culture |date=2014 |publisher=[Brill Publishing](/source/Brill_Publishing) |isbn=9789004282063 |page=257 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NyieBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA257 |chapter=Judith Gautier and the Invention of Chineze Poetry}}</ref><ref name="siecle"/>

Ward's great benefactor in France was the Duchesse de Luynes<ref name="newspapers.com">{{cite news |title=Another Duke Coming |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/960332895/?terms=Waru&match=1 |access-date=29 November 2025 |work=[The Waco Times-Herald](/source/The_Waco_Times-Herald) |date=30 August 1902 |page=1}}</ref><ref name="grandes dames"/> (1849–1905), also known as Yolande de La Rochefoucauld<ref>{{cite web |title=Yolande de La Rochefoucauld |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76275227 |website=[Wikidata](/source/Wikidata) |access-date=29 November 2025}}</ref> or Yolande Dalbert.<ref name="grandes dames"/> The duchess was also a painter and a fellow student at the studio of [Pierre Auguste Cot](/source/Pierre_Auguste_Cot), where they met.<ref name="grandes dames"/> The two became lifelong friends and companions.<ref name="newspapers.com"/><ref name="secret"/>

[[File:Saint_Forget_Church_Saint-Ferreol_Cemetery_04.jpg|right|thumb|110px| Louise de Waru's tomb in [Saint-Forget](/source/Saint-Forget)]]
Her first husband, Hervey de Saint Denys, died in 1892.<ref>Henri Cordier (1892). ''Necrologie: Le Marquis d'Hervey Saint Denys ''. T'oung Pao- International Journal of Chinese Studies. Vol. 3 No. 5, pag. 517-520. Publisher E.J. Brill/Leiden/The Netherlands.</ref><ref>Alexandre Bertrand (1892). ''Annonce du décès de M. le marquis Léon d'Hervey de Saint-Denys, membre de l'Académie''.(Transl.: Announcement of the death of Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys, member of the Academie). Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Vol. 36, Issue 6, page 377.</ref><ref>Alexandre Bertrand (1892).''Paroles prononcées par le Président de l'Académie à l'occasion de la mort de M. le marquis d'Hervey-Saint-Denys''. Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Vol. 36, Issue 6, pages 392-397.</ref> 

In 1896, Ward remarried, to French aristocrat and Olympic equestrian Count [Jacques de Waru](/source/Jacques_de_Waru) (1865–1911).<ref name="geneanet"/> He was described by contemporaries as "a very militant young royalist";<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reinach |first1=Joseph |title=Histoire de l'Affaire Dreyfus, ''Volume 4'' |date=1904 |publisher=Eugène Fasquelle |page=584 |url=https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Histoire_de_l%E2%80%99Affaire_Dreyfus/T4/7#584 |language=French |trans-title=History of the Dreyfus Affair, ''Volume 4''}}</ref> his family had been close to the French monarchy since its restoration in 1804, and his grandfather, Adolphe, had made a personal fortune in banking and served as a regent of the [Banque de France](/source/Banque_de_France) from 1856 to 1871.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jacques de Waru |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/11856 |website=[Olympedia](/source/Olympedia) |access-date=29 November 2025}}</ref>

Ward died in Paris in February 1930,<ref>{{cite web |title=ONIROLOGUES: Léon d'Hervey (de Saint-Denys) |url=https://www.oniros.fr/HerveydeSaint-Denys.html |website=Oneiros |access-date=29 November 2025}}</ref> at the age of 80.<ref name=geneanet/>

She is buried in a large decorative tomb in the small cemetery of the Romanesque church Saint-Ferréol in [Saint-Forget](/source/Saint-Forget) in the department of [Yvelines](/source/Yvelines).<ref name="secret">{{cite web |last1=Chevalier |first1=Florence |title='La mémoire de Chevreuse' dénoue le secret de la tombe Belle Époque |trans-title='La mémoire de Chevreuse' Unravels the Secret of the Belle Époque Tomb|url=https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/versailles_78646/la-memoire-de-chevreuse-denoue-le-secret-de-la-tombe-belle-epoque_12361697.html |website=Actu.fr |access-date=26 November 2025 |date=31 October 2013}}</ref>

==Notable works==
*''Ne dine jamais en ville'' [Never dine out] (known in English as ''The Old Lodger'') (1877)<ref name="grandes dames"/>
*''Chanteuse des rues'' [Street Singer] (1878)<ref name="Explication">{{cite book |title=Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure, et lithographie des artistes vivants |date=1878 |publisher=[Salon de 1878](/source/Salon_(Paris)) |page=69 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=flrgoh83OLAC&pg=PA69}}</ref><ref name="grandes dames"/><ref name="Correspondant"/>
*''Jeanne d'Arc'' (1879)<ref name="grandes dames"/><ref name="S1879">{{cite book |title=Explication Des Ouvrages De Peinture, Sculpture, Architecture, Gravure, Et Lithographie Des Artistes Vivants Exposés Au Palais Des Champs-Elysées le 12 Mai 1879 |date=1879 |publisher=[Imprimerie Nationale](/source/Imprimerie_Nationale) |location=Paris |page=88 |edition=2nd |url=https://dn790006.ca.archive.org/0/items/explicationdesou1879soci/explicationdesou1879soci.pdf}}</ref>
*''Marchand de marrons'' [Chestnut Seller] (1880)<ref>{{cite book |title=Catalogue Illustré du Salon |date=1880 |publisher=L. Baschet |page=23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cpIZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP39}}</ref>
*''Printemps'' (1882)<ref name="Salon 1882"/>
*Portrait of [Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust](/source/Count_Friedrich_Ferdinand_von_Beust) (1882)<ref name="RDDM 1883"/><ref name="Dictionnaire Véron"/><ref name="Cham"/>

==Gallery==
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File:Louise Dubreau (Ward) - Ne dine jamais en ville (The Old Lodger).jpg|''Ne dine jamais en ville'' [Never dine out], known in English as ''The Old Lodger'' (1877)
File:Louise Dubreau (Louise Ward) - Printemps, 1882.jpg|''Printemps'' (1882) 
</gallery>

==Notes==
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