Marie Anne Périchon de Vandeuil
Marie Anne Périchon de Vandeuil, known as "la perichona", was an aristocratic French lady, who had an active role in the politics of Buenos Aires during the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.Biography
Marie Anne Périchon de Vandeuil was born in Île Bourbon, France, the daughter of Armand Etienne Perichon de Vandeuil and Jeanne Magdeleine d'Abeille, belonging to an aristocratic family. His grandfather, Etienne Guillaume Périchon, was Collector of Domains and Forests of the Government of Moulins.
Marie Anne arrived at the port of Buenos Aires with her husband, an Irish merchant Thomas O'Gorman, nephew of Michael O'Gorman.
Marie Anne Périchon had an illicit relationship with Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires. During the British invasions of the River Plate, the house of the Périchon, was protected by a French flag.
Thomas O'Gorman and Marie Anne Périchon, were the paternal grandparents of Camila O'Gorman, who was executed in times of Juan Manuel de Rosas, for having an illicit affair with a Catholic priest. The ancestors of the Périchon family lived for centuries in his "hotel" in the Rue Saint-Denis.
