Editing Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (section)

==== Later years ====
[[File:Tombe vigee-lebrun.JPG|thumb|Vigée Le Brun's grave in [[Louveciennes]]]]

She spent most of her time in [[Louveciennes]], typically eight months of the year. She formed new friendships with people including the writer and man of letters M. de Briffaut, the playwright [[Jean-Baptiste-Denis Despré]], the writer [[Aimé Martin]], the composer [[Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers]], the painter and antiquarian [[Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin|Comte de Forbin]], and the famous painter [[Antoine-Jean Gros]]. She hosted these people and socialized with them regularly in her countryside home or in Paris, as well as her old friend the Princess Kourakin. She painted [[Genevieve|Saint Geneviève]], with the face being a posthumous portrait of 12-year old Julie. For the local chapel, the [[Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis|Comtesse de Genlis]] graced this painting with two separate poems; one for the saint, the other for the painter. She spent her time with her nieces Caroline Rivière and Eugénie Tripier-Le Franc, whom she came to regard as her own children. She had tutored the latter in painting since childhood and was greatly pleased to see her blossom into a professional artist. Eugénie and Caroline would assist her in writing her memoirs, late in her life. She died in Paris on 30 March 1842, aged 86. She was buried at the [[Cimetière de Louveciennes]] near her old home. Her tombstone [[epitaph]] says "''Ici, enfin, je repose...''" (Here, at last, I rest...).<ref>{{Cite book |last=May |first=Gita |title=Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun : The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2005 |isbn=9780300108729 |pages=201}}</ref>