The burial place of Anne-Marie Fauques de Vaucluse at Fonthill, Wiltshire

Few people know where and when Anne-Marie Fauques de Vaucluse the writer was buried. When she died she did not get any obituaries, but the parish records survive and prove that she was buried on the estate of her friend and patron William Beckford. Beckford was the owner of a grand estate, Fonthill in Wiltshire, where he had a mansion in Palladian style. Nothing survives of it today except these imposing entrance gates. 

    There were several villages on the estate, one called Fonthill Gifford. There, in the churchyard of St Nicholas, Anne-Marie Fauques was buried in 1804 under her married name of Madame de Starck. Although the house has gone and the original, classical style church was rebuilt in Victorian times, the fine landscaped park of the Beckford estate survives, with its woodlands and lake.

It is now owned by the National Trust and most of it is grazed by cattle or sheep.

The lake in the grounds of Fonthill, where the author went boating with William Beckford, still exists and swans swim on it.

The original church at Fonthill in Beckford's time looked like this:

Many of the graves in the churchyard today are overgrown with moss and ivy, some of the older ones being just flat slabs half-sunken in the earth, their inscriptions worn away or impossible to decipher. But we know that somewhere here beneath the shade of dark, wide-spreading yew trees, is the grave of Anne-Marie de Starck, née Fauques, alias Mme de Vaucluse, alias Madame de la Cepedes, alias Madame Durand, novelist, poet, translator and philosopher of the Enlightenment.

Fauques's funeral here in May 1804 was attended by very few people. It had to be kept secret for reasons that are explained in her biography.

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