Marie Anne Périchon de Vandeuil

Marie Anne Périchon de Vandeuil d'Abeille

portrait of Marie Anne Périchon
Personal details
Born April 4, 1775
Saint-Denis, Réunion, France
Died December 2, 1847
La Matanza, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Resting place La Recoleta Cemetery
Nationality French
Spouse(s) Thomas O'Gorman

Marie Anne Périchon de Vandeuil known as "La Perichona" (1775-1847) was an aristocratic French lady.[1] She had an active participation in politics of Buenos Aires, during the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.[2]

Biography

Marie Anne was born in Île Bourbon, (France) daughter of Armand Etienne Perichon de Vandeuil (born in Paris) and Jeanne Magdeleine d'Abeille.[3] His grandfather Etienne Guillaume Périchon was Collector of Domains and Forests of the Government of Moulins.[4] Marie Anne arrived at the port of Buenos Aires with her husband the Irish merchant Thomas O'Gorman, nephew Michael O'Gorman.[5]

Marie Anne Périchon had an illicit relationship with Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires.[6] During the British invasions of the River Plate, the house of the Périchon, was protected by a French flag.[7]

Thomas O'Gorman and Marie Anne Périchon, were the grandparents of Camila O'Gorman, who was executed in times of Juan Manuel de Rosas, for having an illicit affair with a Catholic priest.[8] The ancestors of the Périchon family, lived for centuries in his "hotel" in the Rue Saint-Denis (Paris).[9]

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