"Angelina Jolie left the Clinic Santa Maria of Fondation Lenval early in the morning of July 19," hospital rep Nadine Bauer was quoted as saying by PEOPLE.com. "The mother and babies are doing very well."

There were only a few journalists camped outside the Fondation Lenval hospital in Nice, France, early yesterday but even they did not know for sure when Jolie, who lives with her partner of three years Brad Pitt, slipped out of the hospital with her twins -- Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline -- at 4 am local time.

Jolie and the newest Jolie-Pitts left Lenval to join their excited siblings Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2 at Chateau Miraval, the enormous and luxurious chateau in Correns, France, that Jolie and Pitt rented in May.

Photographers had been stationed on nearby roofs of the hospital, hoping that Jolie would leave as she had arrived nearly three weeks ago by helicopter.

Bauer also released a statement from the hospital, which thanked "those journalists around the hospital who did their best to respect their privacy."