Armand Antoine Agénor de Gramont, 12th
Duc de Gramont (29 September 1879 – 2 August 1962) was a French nobleman, scientist and industrialist. He was known by the
courtesy title of Duc de Guiche until 1925, when he succeeded his father as Duc de Gramont. He was the eldest son of Antoine Alfred Agénor de Gramont, 11e duc de Gramont and
Marguerite de Rothschild
Mayer Carl ''Freiherr'' von Rothschild (5 August 1820 – 16 October 1886) was a German Jewish banker and politician, as well as scion of the Rothschild family.
Early life
Born in Naples on 5 August 1820. He was a son of Adelheid ( née Herz) a ...
.
In 1904, he married
Élaine Greffulhe, the daughter of
Count Greffulhe and his wife,
Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (said to be a model for the Duchess of Guermantes in
Marcel Proust’s novel, ''
À la recherche du temps perdu
''In Search of Lost Time'' (french: À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as ''Remembrance of Things Past'', and sometimes referred to in French as ''La Recherche'' (''The Search''), is a novel in seven volumes by French ...
''). The marriage produced five children.
A rare film clip shows Proust (in bowler hat and grey coat) at Gramont's wedding in 1904.
Proust’s wedding gift to Gramont was apparently a revolver in a leather case inscribed with verses from the bride’s childhood poems.
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1879 births
1962 deaths
Dukes of Gramont
Rothschild family
French people of German-Jewish descent
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