OUR STORY
A story of family, transmission and sharing.
At the end of the 18th century, the mysterious Louise de La Marnierre was born. Daughter of a Conseiller du Roi au Châtelet and Secrétaire des Commandements de son Altesse Monseigneur le Duc de Penthièvre. Her mother was Marie-Francoise de Varenne. His godfather was Monseigneur Louis de Bourbon Duc de Penthièvre. Legitimate grandson of Louis XIV. His godmother was Princess Louise de Lamballe, superintendent and friend of Queen Marie-Antoinette.
Quickly spotted for her perfect education and French manners, Louise de La Marnierre spent her life teaching "French manners", as well as the French language, history and culture, in many different countries. First in Italy, at the court of Napoleon's sisters, with Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples, then Elisa Bonaparte. Married to an Italian doctor, she travelled through Russia, where she is said to have instructed the children of the Czar Romanov's court, and then to Persia, where she taught the princes and princesses of the Qâdjars.
The singular and quite extraordinary destiny of this mysterious French aristocrat known for "her French dinners" will be studied and retraced by renowned professors such as Jean Calmard and Omar Coloru.
More than 230 years later, Alix de La Marnierre, like her grandmother, has retained a love and respect for the subtleties that make up the richness and elegance of French savoir-vivre.
An education in keeping with French nobility. As a boarder with the nuns, as tradition dictates, in addition to academic subjects, she took all the courses considered indispensable to the education of a young girl from a good family : deportment, dancing, singing, sewing, cooking, horse-riding and curtsying. A graduate and consultant, she has been traveling the world for over 20 years, particularly in the Pacific.
Passionate about art, and in contact with radically different Cultures, she has been able to identify the elements that make up Etiquette, that famous "French touch".
Today, Alix would like to work with companies, hotel groups, brands and individuals to help them design events based on this "Etiquette".
" It's all the subtle details that give a ceremony its delicacy"
Alix de La Marnierre
