Anne Louise Marie de Beauvau (1 April 1750 – 20 November 1834) known as "Mademoiselle de Beauvau" was the only child of Charles Juste de Beauvau, Prince of Craon and Marie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne. She was also a niece of society hostess, Madame de Boufflers In Paris, the Princess of Poix held a salon where she received all that was most brilliant within the society of the time and in particular the supporters of new ideas such as Gérard de Lally-Tollendal, the Abbé de Montesquiou, the Marquis de La Fayette, the Dukes of Luynes and Liancourt as well as for Mesdames d'Hénin, de Tessé, de Lauzun, de Simiane and Ossun.
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Born in Lunéville, she grew up at the court of Stanisław Leszczyński, former King of Poland and sovereign Duke of Lorraine, where her family the House of Beauvau were among the most senior noble families in the Duchy of Lorraine. Described as an attractive girl, she was born with a leg weaker than the other which worsened with age, leaving her lame in later life. While being educated at the prestigious Port-Royal-des-Champs, she befriended several people who would remain close to her throughout her life, including Mademoiselle de Poyenne later Duchess of Sully, Amélie de Boufflers, later Duchess of Lauzun, and Geneviève de Gramont, later Countess of Ossun. Devastated by her mother's death in 1763 her grief was worsened by her father quickly marrying his mistress Marie Charlotte Sylvie de Rohan-Chabot the following year.