Stanislas de Castellane (15 October 1875 - 4 July 1959) was a French politician, representing

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in parliament several times between 1902 and 1940.

Biography

He was born in

Juigné-sur-Sarthe Juigné-sur-Sarthe (, literally ''Juigné on Sarthe'') is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France. Monuments * Manoir de Vrigné * Château de Juigné See also * Communes of the Sarthe dep ...

, the youngest son of

Antoine de Castellane Marquis Boniface Antoine de Castellane (12 May 1844 – 10 December 1917) was a French aristocrat, most notable as deputy for Cantal and as father of Boni de Castellane. Early life Boniface Antoine de Castellane was born on 12 May 1844 in Pa ...

and a member of the

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. His elder brother was

Boni de Castellane Marie Ernest Paul Boniface de Castellane, Marquis de Castellane (February 14, 1867 – October 20, 1932), known as Boni de Castellane, was a French nobleman and politician. He was known as a leading '' Belle Époque'' tastemaker and the first hus ...

. He studied at the

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and entered politics at a young age, being elected to the

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as a representative of Cantal in 1902, when he was 27. He lost his seat in 1906, was reelected in 1919 and again in 1928. Between 1930 and 1932 he was vice-president of the Chamber. In 1938 he was elected senator for Cantal. Additionally, in 1905 he was elected mayor of Marcenat, holding the title until 1940. On 10 July 1940, he voted in favour of handing over full powers to

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. Because of this, after the

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, he was declared ineligible and could not seek another parliamentary mandate. In 1901 he married Natalia Terry y Sanchez (1877-1962), the sister of architect

Emilio Terry Emilio Rene Terry y Sánchez (1890–1969), known as Emilio Terry was a French architect, artist, interior decorator and landscape designer of Cuban-Irish ancestry. Creating furniture, tapestries and objets d'art, he was influenced by the château d ...

, and had two sons: Henri (1903-1937) and François (1908-1988). After the war he withdrew from public life and died on 4 July 1959 in Paris, age 84.

References

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