Henriette d'Angeville (1794 to 1871) was the second woman to climb Mont Blanc and the first to do so unaided, meaning that although male guides showed her the way up the mountain and carried her supplies, they did not carry her, as the guides had had to do for the first woman to summit over certain rough spots. She was born in Semur-en-Auxois and died in Lausanne. A descendant of a French aristocratic family, she saw her father imprisoned and her grandfather executed after the French Revolution, after which the family moved to Bugey in the Rhone-Alpes region.
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