Antoinette Polk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 27-Oct-1847
Place of Birth: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Date of Death: 03-Feb-1919
Profession: socialite
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Antoinette Polk
- Antoinette Van Leer Polk, Baroness de Charette (October 27, 1847 - February 3, 1919) was an American Southern belle in the Antebellum South and (by marriage) French aristocrat in the Gilded Age.
- Born into the planter elite, the great-niece of the 11th President of the United States James K.
- Polk and American Revolutionary War General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, member of the Van Leer family and an heiress to plantations in Tennessee, she was a "Southern heroine" who saved Confederate States Army personnel during the American Civil War of 1861-1865.
- After the war, she moved to Europe, where she took to foxhunting in the Roman Campagna of Italy and the English countryside, and later became a Baroness and socialite in Paris and Brittany.
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