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Daughter of François Marie 1st Denis de Keredern de Trobriand and his wife Anna Maria Teresa Massa y Leunda y Aristiguieta, akin to Simon Bolivar, Louise Jeanne Nicole Arnalde, born in Brehat Island the 29th of June 1775, spent the first years of the French Revolution in the castle of Penmarc'h, in Saint Fregant (Finistere), under the protection of her relative, the Marchioness of Penmarc'h, born de Kermel.
She lived during a time with her sister Hilarie in the convent of the Ursulines of Lesneven then, at fourteen, she was emancipated by her father to be able to marry the knight Barthélémy Régis Dervieu du Villars, (1750-1835) . They married the 8th of February 1791 in the chapel of the Penmarc'h castle. Then she lived in Oullins, near Lyon. Dervieu du Villars was the mayor of Lyon and general of the National Guard. During the troubles of the French Revolution and the Terror which, in Lyon, followed the rebellion of the town against the Convention, she delivered her husband from the jail where he was waiting death after the sentence of the Revolutionary Court. After Thermidor and the end of the Terror, the couple went to Paris and Dervieu might retrieve his personal estate. Then, the young and pretty Fanny rushed in the giddy round of feasts and pleasures whose Paris was the center during the Directoire and the Consulate. She opened, in her mansion of the Basse Saint Pierre street, a very sought after Salon. Dervieu du Villars, on his own, remained far from Paris and its political unrest and, since the 2nd of July 1794, he found shelter with his rural property of Millery, near Lyon, where he died the 21st of December 1837.
During the year 1802, Fanny was the mistress of Eugène de Beauharnais from whom, accordind to familial traditions, she had a son, born the 2nd of February 1803 in Paris, who was, by order on Napoleon Bonaparte, acknowledged by Pierre Marie François Denis-Lagarde, journalist and bannister to the Prize Court, the mother being named, in the birth act, as Louise Denis.
In 1804, Fanny settled her cousin Simon Bolivar in the Hostel of Foreigners, at the 2 Vivienne street. He was travelling in Europe after the death of his young wife. They were in very friendly, almost loving, terms and this friendship lasted all their life, expressing in a copious correspondance between Fanny and Bolivar (*). It is during this sojourn in Paris that Simon Bolivar was introduced by Fanny in the salons of M(il sera, drs de Talleyrand, Mrs de Suard and Mrs d'Hadetot. In the salon of Fanny, he was introduced with the naturalist Bonpland , the erudite baron Alexandre de Humboldt, Alexandre de Lameth, one of the Triumvirs of 1791, and his brothers Theodore and Charles de Lameth, heroes of the assault of Yorktown during the american Independance War, with the General C.Oudinot, Pierre Denis-Lagarde and the young Eugene de Beauharnais who, the following year, should be viceroy of Italy. In the annexes, there is, with some letters from Simon Bolivar to Fanny, the text of a lecture done in Bogota, in 1930, by the writer Teresa de la Parra which emphasizes the important influence, among many other, of this meeting with Fanny du Villars on the career and the life of Simon Bolivar.
After the birth, in 1803, of her thid son, Eugene, Fanny travelled in Italy and particularly in Venice where she seemed to have an affair with Denis-Lagarde, then General Police Superintendent for the french-ruled Venetia. This relationship induced the anger of the Viceroy Eugene de Beauharnais and Denis-Lagarde owed to go back to France. Afterwards, Fanny spent a time at the Court of the King of Neapolis, Joachim Murat, as a lady-in-waiting near the Princess Caroline Murat, Queen of Neapolis. Back to France, she resumed her married life and her last legitimate son is born in 1815. However, in 1812, she had had an other adulterous child, a girl named Louise Victoire, the presumed father being still Eugene de Beauharnais. This girl was then adopted by her uncle Jacques Pierre Romain "Santiago" Denis de Keredern de Trobriand. Fanny is probably dead well after 1843, year of the death of her nephew Anatole, son of her brother Joseph Vincent.
Fanny had born five children, and, among them, three legitimate sons.
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