French aristocratic
The French nobility (french: la noblesse française) was a privileged social class in France from the Middle Ages until its abolition on June 23, 1790 during the French Revolution.
From 1808 to 1815 during the First Empire the Emperor Napolé ...
family, of which several members have taken an important part in
French politics
The politics of France take place with the framework of a semi-presidential system determined by the French Constitution of the French Fifth Republic. The nation declares itself to be an "indivisible, secular, democratic, and social Republic ...
. Their nobility was proven in 1491. The Pineton de Chambrun originally come from the
Gévaudan
Gévaudan (; oc, Gavaudan, Gevaudan) is a historical area of France in Lozère ''département''. It took its name from the Gabali, a Gallic tribe subordinate to the Arverni.
History
After the conquest of Gaul, the Romans preserved the cap ...
region, where many members were
mayors
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or deputies of
Lozère
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.
First family members in French politics
*Louis Charles Pineton de Chambrun (1774-1860), ''
émigré
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French Huguenots
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'' of the
Army of Condé
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, colonel of cavalry, deputy of Lozère.
*Joseph Dominique Aldebert de Chambrun (19 November 1821 – 6 February 1899), was a
prefect
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then deputy of Lozère, then senator from 30 January 1876 to 4 January 1879.
* Charles de Chambrun (1827–1880), French politician, member of the
Chamber of Deputies
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Description
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.
Descendants of Lafayette
Descendants include direct lineage of the
Marquis de Lafayette
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette (, ), was a French aristocrat, freemason and military officer who fought in the American Revoluti ...
, through the wedding of Marie Henriette Hélène ''Marthe'' Tircuy de Corcelle (6 June 1832, Paris – 17 November 1902, Paris), granddaughter of Marie Antoinette Virginie du Motier de La Fayette, at the
Église de la Madeleine
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in Paris, on 8 June 1859, with Charles Adolphe Pineton de Chambrun (10 August 1831,
Marjevols
Marvejols (; oc, Maruèjols), is a Communes of France, commune in the Lozère Departments of France, department in southern France.
Its inhabitants are known as ''Marvejolais''.
Geography
The commune is located in the Massif central. The Colag ...
– 13 September 1891,
New York
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), a lawyer in New York.
The descendants of Marthe Tircuy de Corcelle and Charles Adolphe Pineton de Chambrun include:
*Marie Thérèse Virginie Françoise de Chambrun (30 June 1860,
Essay, Orne
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*Communes of the Orne department
*No ...
– 17 January 1948,
Algiers
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) who married the explorer of Africa
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
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.
*
Pierre de Chambrun
Pierre de Chambrun (11 June 1865 in Paris – 24 August 1954) was a French politician.
Early life
Charles Louis Antoine Pierre Gilbert Pineton de Chambrun was born in Paris. The Pineton de Chambrun family was of noble origin and politically ...
(1865–1954) was elected deputy under the Third Republic (1898–1933) then senator (1933–1941) of the
Lozère
Lozère (; oc, Losera ) is a landlocked department in the region of Occitanie in Southern France, located near the Massif Central, bounded to the northeast by Haute-Loire, to the east by Ardèche, to the south by Gard, to the west by Aveyron, ...
department. He was part of the
Vichy 80
The Eighty (''Les Quatre-Vingts'') were a group of elected French parliamentarians who, on 10 July 1940, voted against the constitutional change that effectively dissolved the Third Republic and established the authoritarian regime of Philippe P ...
minority group of French elected parliamentarians who, on 10 July 1940, voted against the constitutional change that dissolved the Third Republic and established the state of the
Vichy régime
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under the leadership of Marshal
Philippe Pétain
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. Pierre de Chambrun became a member of the
Provisional Consultative Assembly
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in 1944–1945. He married on 12 December 1895 Margaret Rives Nichols, daughter of
George Ward Nichols
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and Maria Longworth; they had three children:
**Marthe de Chambrun (1899–1984), who married Alessandro dei Principi Ruspoli-Poggio Suasa (1895–1975); they had one son and two daughters.
**Jean-Pierre de Chambrun, Marquis de Chambrun (1903–2004), who married Gisèle Hugot-Gratry (1909–2005), heiress of the French ''
monument historique
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mayor
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of
Montrodat
Montrodat is a commune in the Lozère departement in southern France.
See also
*Communes of the Lozère department
The following is a list of the 152 communes of the Lozère department of France
France (), officially the French Re ...
(Lozère).
Gaullist
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deputy of Lozère from 1962 to 1973, he was named Secretary of State to Foreign Trade in 1966, during the third government of
Georges Pompidou
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. From 1986 to 1988, he was deputy of the
Gard
Gard () is a department in Southern France, located in the region of Occitanie. It had a population of 748,437 as of 2019;National Front.
***Jean-François de Chambrun (1936–2015), who married firstly Josalee
Douglas
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*Douglas the camel, a camel in the Confederate Army in the American Civil W ...
, niece of US Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Lewis Williams Douglas
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Douglas was the son of James Douglas, Jr., a mining executive employed by the Phelps Dodge Company, and hi ...
, then secondly
Raine, Countess Spencer
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, the former stepmother of
Diana, Princess of Wales
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.
**
Gilbert de Chambrun
Count Gilbert de Chambrun (1909–2009) was a French politician. He was a member of the French Resistance and he served in the National Assembly.
Early life
Gilbert de Chambrun was born on 2 November 1909 in Paris, France. His father, Pierre de ...
, (1909–2009), was a
diplomat
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,
mayor
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of
Marjevols
Marvejols (; oc, Maruèjols), is a Communes of France, commune in the Lozère Departments of France, department in southern France.
Its inhabitants are known as ''Marvejolais''.
Geography
The commune is located in the Massif central. The Colag ...
from 1953 to 1965, deputy in the
Constituent Assembly
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of 1946, deputy of Lozère from 1946 to 1955 who sieged in the parliamentary group of the
French Communist Party
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(PCF). He married French physician and activist Jacqueline Retourné ; they had four children.
*Jacques ''Aldebert'' de Chambrun (23 July 1872,
Washington, D.C.
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– 22 April 1962, Paris), ''
Général
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'', high officer of the
Legion of Honour
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(''Légion d'honneur''), member of the
Society of the Cincinnati
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of France and of the
Jockey Club
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. He married on 19 February 1901, in
Cincinnati
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Nicholas Longworth
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who married
Alice Roosevelt
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, daughter of the US President
Theodore Roosevelt
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. Their offspring would include:
**
René de Chambrun
René Aldebert Pineton de Chambrun (23 August 1906 – 19 May 2002) was a French-American aristocrat, lawyer, businessman and author. He practised law at the Court of Appeals of Paris and the New York State Bar Association. He was the author of s ...
(1906–2002), lawyer at the
Court of Appeal of Paris
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and in the Bar of New York, and president of the
Baccarat
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Cristalleries. René de Chambrun married
Pierre Laval
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's daughter Josée, and who later defended, post-war, Laval's memory. He bought the
Château de la Grange-Bléneau
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, a
castle
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in the ''
commune
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** Communes of ...
'' of
Courpalay
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Demographics
The inhabitants are called ''Courpaliens''.
See also
*Château de la Grange-Bléneau
*Communes of the Seine-et-Marne d ...
in the
Seine-et-Marne
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''
département
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'' of France, from his cousin, Louis de Lasteyrie, a descendant of La Fayette, in 1935, with a life tenancy. Upon Lasteyrie's death in 1955, René de Chambrun discovered the large cache of documents in the attic, and founded a private museum to Lafayette. He organized and described the family archives, a collection dating from 1457 to 1990. The papers were microfilmed at La Grange in 1995 and 1996, for the United States Library of Congress.Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress /ref>
* Charles de Chambrun (1875–1952), diplomat and writer, member of the
Académie française
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; he married Marie de Rohan-Chabot (1876–1951), widow of prince
Lucien Murat
Lucien Charles Joseph Napoléon, Prince Français, Prince of Naples, 2nd Prince de Pontecorvo, 3rd Prince Murat (16 May 1803 – 10 April 1878) was a French politician, and the sovereign Prince of Pontecorvo between 1812 and May 1815.
Early life
...
and daughter of Alain de Rohan-Chabot,
Duke of Rohan Duke of Rohan is a title of French nobility, associated with the Breton region of Rohan.
Duke of Rohan House of Rohan
House of Chabot
House of Rohan-Chabot
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, and his wife Herminie, Duchess of Rohan (''née'' de La Brousse de Verteillac).
References
* Maria Petringa, ''Brazza, A Life for Africa'', Bloomington, In; AuthorHouse, 2006,