First Lady of the French State 1940 - 1944.
Born in Courquetaine, in Seine-et-Marne, Eugenie is the daughter of Alphonse Eugène Hardon and Berthe Eugénie Marest. On 19 February 1903, she married François Dehérain (1877 - 1962). They had one son, Pierre de Hérain (1904 - 1972). The couple divorced in 1914.
In 1920 she married Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain, a Marshall of France, (nickname the Lion of Verdun) in a civil ceremony in Paris. She supported her husband throughout his career as Minister of War 1934, Minister of State 1935, Deputy Prime Minister and later Prime Minister in 1940 and a Chief of the French State 1940 - 1944. After World War II and his conviction as a war criminal, she lived near her husband's prisons and visited him daily.
Her funeral was conducted in the church of Saint-Pierre du Gros Caillou.
Born in Courquetaine, in Seine-et-Marne, Eugenie is the daughter of Alphonse Eugène Hardon and Berthe Eugénie Marest. On 19 February 1903, she married François Dehérain (1877 - 1962). They had one son, Pierre de Hérain (1904 - 1972). The couple divorced in 1914.
In 1920 she married Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain, a Marshall of France, (nickname the Lion of Verdun) in a civil ceremony in Paris. She supported her husband throughout his career as Minister of War 1934, Minister of State 1935, Deputy Prime Minister and later Prime Minister in 1940 and a Chief of the French State 1940 - 1944. After World War II and his conviction as a war criminal, she lived near her husband's prisons and visited him daily.
Her funeral was conducted in the church of Saint-Pierre du Gros Caillou.
First Lady of the French State 1940 - 1944.
Born in Courquetaine, in Seine-et-Marne, Eugenie is the daughter of Alphonse Eugène Hardon and Berthe Eugénie Marest. On 19 February 1903, she married François Dehérain (1877 - 1962). They had one son, Pierre de Hérain (1904 - 1972). The couple divorced in 1914.
In 1920 she married Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain, a Marshall of France, (nickname the Lion of Verdun) in a civil ceremony in Paris. She supported her husband throughout his career as Minister of War 1934, Minister of State 1935, Deputy Prime Minister and later Prime Minister in 1940 and a Chief of the French State 1940 - 1944. After World War II and his conviction as a war criminal, she lived near her husband's prisons and visited him daily.
Her funeral was conducted in the church of Saint-Pierre du Gros Caillou.
Born in Courquetaine, in Seine-et-Marne, Eugenie is the daughter of Alphonse Eugène Hardon and Berthe Eugénie Marest. On 19 February 1903, she married François Dehérain (1877 - 1962). They had one son, Pierre de Hérain (1904 - 1972). The couple divorced in 1914.
In 1920 she married Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain, a Marshall of France, (nickname the Lion of Verdun) in a civil ceremony in Paris. She supported her husband throughout his career as Minister of War 1934, Minister of State 1935, Deputy Prime Minister and later Prime Minister in 1940 and a Chief of the French State 1940 - 1944. After World War II and his conviction as a war criminal, she lived near her husband's prisons and visited him daily.
Her funeral was conducted in the church of Saint-Pierre du Gros Caillou.
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