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Two of her three sisters, Marie-Victoire Lemoine and Marie-�lisabeth Gabiou, as well as distant cousin Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, were all trained as portraitists. Within her family, Marie-Denise was known as Nisa. The family lived on the Rue Traversi�re-Saint-Honor� near the Palais Royal in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.
Little is known about Marie-Denise's childhood, however it is likely that through her much older sisters and cousin she would have been introduced to the salons of Paris.
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It was In the Paris Salon of that she met the artist Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, and also began to take painting lessons with Fran�ois G�rard and Jacques-Louis David. In , she married an architecture student, Michel-Jean-Maximilien Villers.
Her husband supported her art, during a time when many women were forced