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Possibly Marie (de Bérenger) Drummond (born 1728), widow of James Drummond (1708-1766), heir to the attainted earldom of Melfort in the Scottish peerage. She was the daughter of Francis Bérenger, married James Drummond in 1755 (having lived with him since 1747), and bore six children. Louis XV granted her a pension in 1775.