''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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. She became known as a patron of artists and Belgian cultural life. She was born in

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to a functionary at the Austrian court and married her cousin Giuseppe Trotti in 1818. In 1821, the couple moved to Brussels (then part of the Netherlands), where she became a leading socialite. She hosted a

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

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

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Trotti, Constance 1800 births 1871 deaths 19th-century Belgian people Belgian nobility Belgian salon-holders Immigrants to the Netherlands Emigrants from the Austrian Empire