Pierre de Cossé Brissac, 12th Duke of Brissac (13 March 1900 – 4 April 1993), was a French aristocrat and author who wrote historical
memoir
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s. He held the French noble title of
Duke of Brissac from 1944 to 1993.
Early life
He was born in 1900 in
Paris
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, France.
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Bibliothèque nationale de France
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His father,
François de Cossé Brissac, was the 11th Duke of Brissac from 1883 to 1944. His mother was Mathilde de Crussol d'Uzès, younger daughter of the 12th
Duke of Uzès
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and his wife,
Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart
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.
Career
He wrote historical memoirs, and four of his memoirs were about his family, the Dukes of Brissac.
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Personal life
In 1924, he married Marie Zélie Antoinette Eugénie Schneider (1902–1999), known as May Schneider, the daughter of French industrialist Eugène Schneider II
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.La Celle-les-Bordes
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See also
*Communes of the Yvelines department
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, France.
They were the parents of two sons and two daughters:Maurice Herzog
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in 1964.
* François de Cossé-Brissac, 13th Duke of Brissac (1929–2021), who married Jacqueline Alice de Contades, daughter of Count André de Contades and Daisy Thome, in 1958.
* Giles de Cossé-Brissac (1935–2001).
* Elvire de Brissac
Elvire de Brissac (born 19 January 1939) is a French novelist and biographer. Her awards include the Prix des Deux Magots, Grand prix des lectrices de Elle, Prix Contrepoint, Prix Goncourt, and the Prix Femina, Prix Femina Essai.
Biography
Elvir ...
(b. 1939), a novelist.
Distinctions
* Grand Master of the Order of Saint Lazarus (statuted 1910)
Published works
*''La duchesse d'Uzès'' (Paris, Gründ, 1950, 201 pages).
*''Les Brissac, Maison de Cossé'' (Paris: Éditions Fasquelle, 1973, 448 pages).
*''A la Billebaude à travers l'Yveline'' (Chaumont, France: Éditions Crépin-Leblond, 1955, 214 pages).
*''Chasse'' (Chaumont, France: Éditions Crépin-Leblond, 1957, 109 pages).
*''Nord Kapp ou la Norvège vue par un Français'' (Paris: Éditions Del Duca, 1967).
*''En d'autres temps (1900-1939)'' (Paris: Grasset, 1972, 455 pages).
*''La suite des temps (1939-1958)'' (Paris: Grasset, 1974).
*''Le temps qui court (1959-1974)'' (Paris: Grasset, 1977).
*''Le château d'en face (1974-1985)'' (Paris: Grasset, 1986).
References
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1900 births
1993 deaths
Writers from Paris
People from Maine-et-Loire
Pierre
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Grand Masters of the Order of Saint Lazarus (statuted 1910)
20th-century French memoirists