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Antoinette Van Leer Polk, Baroness de Charette (October 27, 1847 - February 3, 1919) was an American Southern belle in the Antebellum South and (by marriage) French aristocrat in the Gilded Age. Born into the planter elite, the great-niece of the 11th President of the United States James K. Polk and American Revolutionary War General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, member of the Van Leer family and an heiress to plantations in Tennessee, she was a "Southern heroine" who saved Confederate States Army personnel during the American Civil War of 1861-1865. After the war, she moved to Europe, where she took to foxhunting in the Roman Campagna of Italy and the English countryside, and later became a Baroness and socialite in Paris and Brittany.

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Born	27 October 1847 Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Died	3 February 1919 (aged 71) Bouguenais, Loire-Atlantique, France
Zodiac	Scorpio
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William Polk (colonel) · Grandfather · 1758-1834 · American politician edit info

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