Marcelle Tascher de la Pagerie

Marie-Marseille-Adéle "Marcelle" Tascher de la Pagerie née Clary (1792–1866) was a French countess. She served as överhovmästarinna for her paternal aunt, the Swedish Queen Désirée Clary. Marcelle Tascher de la Pagerie was the daughter of Etienne-Francois Clary (1757–1823) and Catherine-Marguerite-Marseille Guey (d. 1804) and married the cousin of Empress Josephine de Beauharnais, count Henri de Tascher de la Pagerie (d. 1816). In 1823, she accompanied her paternal aunt to Sweden, when Désirée went there to assume her post as Queen at the occasion of her son's wedding to Josephine of Leuchtenberg. Among the rest of the French retinue was the sons of marshal Michel Ney as well as the two female and one male chamber servant Eleonore Felix, Virginie Brunot and Louis Brunot. The arrival of Queen Desiree, who had lived in France for eleven years, made it necessary to form a Queen's Household, which had by then not existed at the Swedish court for several years. A great entourage of ladies-in-waiting where appointed, among them her husband's mistress Mariana Koskull and her son's mistress Jacquette Löwenhielm, and for the first time since the Union of Sweden and Norway, Norwegian ladies-in-waiting where also appointed. The king appointed Caroline Lewenhaupt to the office of senior lady-in-waiting. She had served Desiree in that capacity during Desiree's first stay in Sweden in 1810-11 as well as to the late queen and thus the last person to hold the office at the royal court, and her appointment was a practical solution - she was simply said to have retained the office, and was called in to serve. Aware of the queen's great dislike of etiquette, the occasion also prompted the king to introduced several reforms in court life, and he abolished several customs such as the public dinner and the kissing of the queen's skirt during court presentations.