High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jeanne Becu, comtesse du Barry (19 August 1743 – 8 December 1793) was the last Maitresse-en-titre of Louis XV of France and one of the victims of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. Jeanne Becu was born at Vaucouleurs, in the Meuse department in Lorraine, France, the illegitimate daughter of Anne Becu, a woman of enticing beauty, whose occupation was as a seamstress. Jeanne's father was possibly Jean Baptiste Gormand de Vaubernier, a friar known as 'Brother Angel.' During her childhood, one of her mother's lovers, Monsieur Billard-Dumonceaux, father of Jeanne's brother Claude (who died in infancy when only ten months old) took both Anne and three-year-old Jeanne into his household when they travelled from Vaucouleurs to Paris and installed Anne as a cook. Little Jeanette was well-liked by Dumonceaux's Italian mistress Francesca (known in French as Madame, or La Frederique), who pampered her in all luxury. In time Dumonceaux took decision, and funded Jeanette's education at the convent of Saint-Aure.

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