Princess Dorothea Of Courland
Dorothea von Biron, Princess of Courland, Duchess of Dino, Talleyrand and Sagan, known as Dorothée de Courlande or Dorothé de Dino (21 August 1793 – 19 September 1862), was a Baltic German noblewoman. Her mother was Dorothea von Medem, Duchess of Courland, and although her mother's husband, Duke Peter von Biron, acknowledged her as his own, her true father might be Polish statesman Aleksander Batowski, thus making her half-Polish. For a long time, she accompanied the French statesman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, whereas she was the (later divorced) wife of his nephew, Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord.
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