Napoléon Louis Eugène Alexandre Anne Emmanuel de Talleyrand-Périgord (22 March 1867 – 26 September 1951), 8th
Duke of Montmorency
Duke of Montmorency was a title of French nobility that was created several times for members of the Montmorency family, who were lords of Montmorency, near Paris.
History
The first creation was in 1551 for Anne de Montmorency, Constable of ...
, was a French aristocrat and soldier.
Early life
He was born on 22 March 1867 in Paris, France. He was the only son of
Nicolas Raoul Adalbert de Talleyrand-Périgord (1837–1915),
Duke of Montmorency
Duke of Montmorency was a title of French nobility that was created several times for members of the Montmorency family, who were lords of Montmorency, near Paris.
History
The first creation was in 1551 for Anne de Montmorency, Constable of ...
, and
Ida Marie ''Carmen'' Aguado y MacDonnel (1847–1880). His mother died in
Arcachon,
Gironde
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,
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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in 1880.
His father was prominent at the Court of
Napoleon III
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and was a member of the Union Artistique.
His maternal grandparents were Alexandre Aguado, 2nd Marqués of las
Marismas del Guadalquivir and
Claire Emilie MacDonnel
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Life
Early l ...
, a lady-in-waiting to Empress
Eugénie
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*
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.
His paternal grandparents were
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 ...
and, his first wife, Anne Louise Charlotte de Montmorency.
Among his extended paternal family were Caroline Valentine de Talleyrand-Périgord (wife of Vicomte Charles Henri d'Etchegoyen),
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 ...
, 4th
Duke of Talleyrand-Périgord,
His great-aunt,
Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord, married
Henri de Castellane
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Early life
He was the eldest son of marshal Boniface de Castellane.
Personal life
H ...
.
From his grandfather's second marriage to Rachel Elisabeth Pauline de Castellane (widow of
Max von Hatzfeldt and daughter of
Boniface de Castellane),
his aunt was
Marie Dorothée Louise Valençay de Talleyrand-Périgord
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(wife of
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, the
Prince of Furstenberg and
Jean de Castellane).
Career
Upon the death of his father in 1915,
he became the
Duke of Montmorency
Duke of Montmorency was a title of French nobility that was created several times for members of the Montmorency family, who were lords of Montmorency, near Paris.
History
The first creation was in 1551 for Anne de Montmorency, Constable of ...
(third creation). The title had originally been created in 1688 as the
Duke of Beaufort
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(second creation) but was changed to Duke of Montmorency in 1689. Before he succeeded to the title, he was known as the Count of Périgord.
In 1917, he was a Captain on the General Staff of the
French Army
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.
He was an honorary member of the
Society of the Cincinnati
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, the
fraternal, hereditary society founded in 1783 to commemorate the
American Revolutionary War
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for descendants of military officers who served in the
Continental Army
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.
Personal life
The Duke was married three times. His first marriage was on 30 June 1891 in Paris to Marie-Joséphine-Henriette-''Anne'' de Rohan-Chabot (1873–1903). She was the eldest daughter of
Alain de Rohan-Chabot, 11th
Duke of Rohan and
Herminie de La Brousse de Verteillac. Her sister
Marie de Rohan Chabot,
was the wife of Prince Lucien Napoléon
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,
and Count
Charles de Chambrun.
Her brother,
Josselin de Rohan Chabot, 12th
Duke of Rohan,
was killed in 1916 during
World War I
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.
She died in Paris in 1903.
Second marriage
After the death of his first wife, he married wealthy American heiress Cécile ( Ulman) Blumenthal (1863–1927) on 14 November 1917 at the Church of Saint-Pierre-du-Gros-Caillou in Paris.
She was escorted down the aisle by
U.S. Ambassador
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William G. Sharp.
The widow of New York leather merchant
Ferdinand Blumenthal, Cécile lived at 34
Avenue du Bois de Boulogne in the
16th arrondissement of Paris
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before their marriage, later known as the Hôtel Blumenthal-Montmorency (designed by French architect
Henri Paul Nénot).
From her marriage to Blumenthal, she had two sons, Joseph Ferdinand ''William'' Blumenthal, a diplomat, and
''Cecil'' Charles Blumenthal.
Her sister, Blanche Ulman, was the wife of diplomat, and later
Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
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,
Milenko Radomar Vesnić.
Upon her death in Paris on 9 April 1927,
her entire American estate was inherited by her two sons from her first marriage. He did, however, inherit from her French estate.
Shortly after her death, the Hôtel Blumenthal-Montmorency was sold for 8-million francs to
Simón Iturri Patiño
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who gave it to his daughter Graziella.
Third marriage
After her death, he married Gabrielle-Ida ( Lefaivre) Grandjean (1896–1985) on 21 February 1950. The widow of industrialist ''Armand''-Augustin-Georges Grandjean, she was a daughter of the French diplomat Alexis-Jules Lefaivre, Minister Plenipotentiary, and Isabelle de Lagotellerie, she had been born in
Valparaíso, Chile.
where her father was stationed.
The Duke died in Paris on 26 September 1951 at which time the dukedom of Montmorency became extinct. His widow died in 1985.
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References
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1867 births
1951 deaths
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