Catherine Grand

{{Infobox person | name = | image = Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Vorlée, 1761–1835) MET DP320094.jpg | alt = Madame Grand, 1783 portrait by Vigée-Le Brun, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art | caption = Madame Grand, 1783 portrait by Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art | birth_name = Catherine Noël Worlée | birth_date = 21 November 1762 | birth_place = Tranquebar, Danish India (now Tamil Nadu, India) | death_date = | death_place = Paris, Kingdom of France | resting_place = Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris | nationality = | other_names = Madame GrandCatherine Noël Grand de Talleyrand-Périgord, Princesse de Bénévent | occupation = Courtesan | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse = }} Catherine Noël Grand (née Worlée; 21 November 1762– 10 December 1834) was the daughter of a colonial officer in French India, who became the mistress and later the wife of French diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, the first Prime Minister of France. From 1806 until her death she was Catherine Noël de Talleyrand-Périgord, Princesse de Bénévent. She was known for her beauty. Life Catherine Noël Worlée was born in the Danish possession of Tranquebar, to a French colonial official Peter John Werlée, Capitaine du Port, stationed at nearby Pondicherry, captured by the British earlier that year. She had both French and Danish heritage. The family later moved to Chandernagore where Catherine met George François Grand, a British civil servant of French-Swiss Huguenot descent stationed at nearby Calcutta. They were wed in Chandernagore on 10 July 1777.