Yolande de Polastron, French-Austrian educator (born 1749)

Yolande de Polastron

French aristocrat and courtier (1749–1793)

Yolande de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac was the favourite of Marie Antoinette, whom she met when she was presented at the Palace of Versailles in 1775, the year after Marie Antoinette became the Queen of France. She was considered one of the great beauties of pre-Revolutionary…