Louise Mareuil

Daughter of M. and Hélène Mareuil Dcd. Her mother died in giving birth to her. She was born with misshapen limbs and a diseased brain and was doomed to die young of a lung disease.
She was destined to become Maxime's wife- an alliance arranged by her father and Saccard. Although a virgin she has inherited her mothers love of vice and excess which is why Maxime grows to like her. She is not shaken when she works out Maxime's relationship with Renée. She marries Maxime in 1862 and they honeymoon in Italy where she dies and was buried in Lombardy.