''Alain'' Charles Louis de Rohan-Chabot (1 December 1844 – 6 June 1914), Prince of Léon, 11th Duke of Rohan, deputy of

Morbihan Morbihan ( , ; br, Mor-Bihan ) is a department in the administrative region of Brittany, situated in the northwest of France. It is named after the Morbihan (''small sea'' in Breton), the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastli ...

Early life

Rohan-Chabot was born on 1 December 1844 in Paris. He was the son of Charles Louis Josselin de Rohan-Chabot (1819–1893), 10th Duke of Rohan, and Octavie Rouillé de Boissy (1824–1866). His sister, Marie-Joséphine de Rohan-Chabot, was the wife of Odet de Montault, Viscount of Montault, and, after his death, Count Arthur de Rougé. His paternal grandparents were Anne-Louis Fernand de Rohan-Chabot, 9th Duke of Rohan,

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, '' aide de camp'' of the

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, Squire of the Duke of Bordeaux, and the former Joséphine Françoise de Gontaut-Biron de Saint-Blancard (a daughter of Lt.-Gen. Charles Michel de Gontaut, Viscount of Gontaut-Biron-Saint-Blancard). His maternal grandparents were Hilaire-Etienne-Octave Rouillé, Marquis of Boissy, and Amélie-Charlotte-Julie de Musnier de Folleville.

Career

The Prince of Léon was a Royalist Deputy to the

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for the Ploermell division of Morbihan and a member of the Departmental council. Upon his father's death in 1893, he became the 11th Duke of Rohan.

Personal life

On 26 June 1872, he married Marie Marguerite Henriette Antoinette Amable ''Herminie'' de La Brousse de Verteillac (1853–1926), poetess, daughter of Charles ''César'' Augustin de La Brousse de Verteillac, Baron de La Tour Blanche, and his second wife, Marie Henriette de Leuze. She was also a granddaughter of François Gabriel Thibault de La Brousse, Marquis de Verteillac. Together, they were the parents of five children: * Marie-Joséphine-''Anne'' de Rohan-Chabot (1873–1903), who married Count

Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord Napoléon-Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord, duc de Valençay, 3rd duc de Talleyrand-Périgord (12 March 1811 – 21 March 1898) was a French aristocrat, soldier and politician. Early life He was born at Paris on 12 March 1811, the son of the general ...

(grandson of

and nephew of

Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord Charles Guillaume Frédéric Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord (16 May 1832 – 21 February 1910), prince of Sagan (from 1845), duke of Sagan and duke of Talleyrand (from 1898) was a famous French dandy, and the grandson of Dorothea von Biron. Early ...

), in 1891. * ''Marie''-Augustine de Rohan-Chabot (1876–1951), who married Prince Lucien Napoléon

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, a son of Prince Achille Murat and Princess Salomé Dadiani, in 1897. After his death in 1933, she married Count Charles de Chambrun in 1934. *

Josselin de Rohan Chabot Josselin (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Morbihan Departments of France, department in Brittany (administrative region), Brittany in north-western France. History St Meriadek is said to have founded a chapel there during the 4th c ...

(1879–1916), 12th Duke of Rohan who was killed during

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; he married Marguerite-Marie de Rohan-Chabot, a daughter of Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, in 1906. * Françoise de Rohan Chabot (1881–1957), who married Charles de Riquet, Duke of Caraman, in 1900. * Jehan de Rohan Chabot (1884–1968), who Anne de Talhouët-Roy in 1906. They lived at the Hôtel de Verteillac (renamed Hôtel de Rohan), 35 boulevard des Invalides in Paris, the Château de Josselin in

, and the Chalet des Fées in Pontaillac, built by his wife's father, the Marquis de Verteillac, on the Défé estate he had acquired in 1865. The Duke died in Paris on 6 June 1914. His widow died in the 7th arrondissement of Paris in 1926.

References

External links

Rohan Family
at Britannica {{DEFAULTSORT:Rohan-Chabot, Alain De 1844 births 1914 deaths Alain Alain Nobility from Paris