 Her father, Pierre-Joseph de Gamond, was governor of the province of Antwerp at the time of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and a lawyer and professor after 1830 in the independent Kingdom of Belgium.Her mother, Elisabeth-Angélique de Ladoz, was of noble origin and held regular salons through which Zoé became active in politics.Originally, together with her friend Julie du Bosch, a partisan of Saint-Simon, she later abandoned his ideas for those of the utopian socialist Charles Fourier.