Clémence Gabrielle Monnerot.
Portrait of the Countess of Gobineau, by Ary Scheffer (1850)
Born20 August 1816
Fort-de-France, Martinique
Died4 January 1911.
Paris, French Third Republic
NationalityFrench
CitizenshipFrance
SpouseArthur de Gobineau.
ChildrenChristine de Gobineau, Diane de Guldencrone.
Parents
  • Jean François Clément Monnerot (father)
  • Luce Marie Victoire Destourell (mother)

Clémence Gabrielle Monnerot (20 August 1816 - 4 January 1911) was a creole born in Martinique and was the spouse of French aristocrat Arthur de Gobineau,[1] who was best known for helping to legitimise racism by the use of scientific racist theory and "racial demography", and for developing the theory of the Aryan master race.

Marriage

On 10 September 1846, Clémence married with Arthur de Gobineau. She had pressed for a hasty marriage as she was pregnant by their mutual friend Pierre de Serre who had abandoned her.[2] As a practicing Catholic, she did not wish to give birth to an illegitimate child. As with his mother, Gobineau was never entirely certain about her origins, and hence whether his two daughters had black ancestors or not, as it was a common practice for French slave masters in the Caribbean to take a slave mistress.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Gobineau, Joseph Arthur de". iranicaonline.com. 2012. Archived from the original on 17 May 2013.
  2. 1 2 Biddiss, Michael D. (1970). Father of Racist Ideology: The Social and Political Thought of Count Gobineau. Littlehampton Book Services Ltd. p. 45. ISBN 978-0297000853.


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