''Constance'' Anne Louise Trotti, marchioness Arconati-Visconti (21 July 1800 – 18 May 1871), was a Belgian noble who hosted a leading cultural

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in Brussels. She became known as a patron of artists and Belgian cultural life. She was born in Vienna to a functionary at the Austrian court and married her cousin Giuseppe Trotti in 1818. In 1821, the couple moved to Brussels, where she became a leading socialite. She hosted a

which became the center of the Belgian aristocracy and the French exiled colony, and acted as a patron of Belgian cultural life.

Éliane Gubin Éliane Gubin (born in 1942) is a Belgian historian, researcher and professor of political and social history, specializing in the history of women and feminism. In the late 1980s, she initiated the introduction of women's history at the Univers ...

(2006) (French). ''Dictionnaire des femmes belges: XIXe et XXe siècles.'' Lannoo Uitgeverij.

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