Jean-Baptiste du Barry

Jean-Baptiste DuBarry, comte du Barry-Cérès, vidame de Châlons en Champagne (1723 - 17 January 1794) was a French nobleman. He is most notable as the lover and pimp of Jeanne Bécu (later better known as Madame du Barry, Louis XV's last official mistress), later becoming her brother-in-law by arranging a marriage-of-convenience between her and his younger brother Guillaume Dubarry at the église Saint-Laurent de Paris on 1 September 1768.^[1] Through that union the two brothers benefitted from royal largesse.

^ (in French) Yannick Resch, 200 femmes de l'histoire : des origines à nos jours, Paris, Eyrolles, coll. « Eyrolles pratique », 2009, 230 p., 14,8 × 21 cm (ISBN 978-2-212-54291-2 et 2-212-54291-7, OCLC 495314764, notice BnF no FRBNF42001111, SUDOC 133624129, p. 60.

[1] (in French) Yannick Resch, 200 femmes de l'histoire : des origines à nos jours, Paris, Eyrolles, coll. « Eyrolles pratique », 2009, 230 p., 14,8 × 21 cm (ISBN 978-2-212-54291-2 et 2-212-54291-7, OCLC 495314764, notice BnF no FRBNF42001111, SUDOC 133624129, p. 60.

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