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===Marriage=== [[File:Beauvais (60), MUDO, Ary Scheffer - portrait de la comtesse de Gobineau, 1850.JPG|alt=Departmental Museum of the Oise|thumb| Portrait of Gobineau's wife, Clémence, by [[Ary Scheffer]] (1850)]] In 1846, Gobineau married [[Clémence Gabrielle Monnerot]]. She had pressed for a hasty marriage as she was pregnant by their mutual friend Pierre de Serre who had abandoned her. As a practicing Catholic, she did not wish to give birth to an illegitimate child.{{sfn|Biddiss|1970|p=45}} Monnerot had been born in [[Martinique]]. As with his mother, Gobineau was never entirely certain if his wife, and hence his two daughters had black ancestors or not, as it was a common practice for French slave masters in the Caribbean to take a slave mistress.{{sfn|Biddiss|1970|p=45}} Gobineau's opposition to [[slavery]], which he held always resulted in harmful [[miscegenation]] to whites, may have stemmed from his own personal anxieties that his mother or his wife might have African ancestry.{{sfn|Biddiss|1970|p=45}}
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