Edouard de La Rochefoucauld by Gabriel Ferrier

Count ''Édouard'' François Marie de La Rochefoucauld (4 February 1874 – 9 February 1968), 3rd

Duke of Bisaccia Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and above sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they are ...

, was a French aristocrat and landowner.

Early life

La Rochefoucauld was born on 4 February 1874 at the Hôtel de La Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville at 47 Rue de Varenne in the

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. He was the youngest son of

Sosthène II de La Rochefoucauld Charles Gabriel Marie ''Sosthène'' II de La Rochefoucauld (1 September 1825 – 27 August 1908), 4th Duke of Doudeauville, 1st Duke of Bisaccia, Grandee of Spain, was a French politician during the Third Republic who served as Deputy for Sarthe f ...

, 4th

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, and, his second wife, Princess ''Marie'' Georgine Sophie Hedwige Eugenie of Ligne (1843–1911). From his father's first marriage to Princess Yolande of Polignac (a daughter of Prime Minister Prince

Jules de Polignac Jules Auguste Armand Marie de Polignac, Count of Polignac (; 14 May 178030 March 1847), then Prince of Polignac, and briefly 3rd Duke of Polignac in 1847, was a French statesman and ultra-royalist politician after the Revolution. He served as pr ...

), he had an elder half-sister, Yolande de La Rochefoucauld (who married

Charles Honoré Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes Charles Honoré Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes, 9th Duke of Luynes (22 June 1846 – 2 December 1870) was a French aristocrat and soldier in the Papal Zouaves. Early life Charles Honoré Emmanuel was born on 22 June 1846. He was the eldest son of H ...

, 9th

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). From his parents' marriage, his elder siblings were

Charles de La Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was " ...

(who took the Spanish title of

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); Elisabeth de la Rochefoucauld (who married their cousin, Louis, 9th Prince of Ligne); Armand de La Rochefoucauld (who became the 5th Duke of Doudeauville and married Princess Marié Lise Radziwiłł); and Marie de La Rochefoucauld (who married François d'Harcourt, 10th

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). His paternal grandparents were

Sosthènes I de La Rochefoucauld Louis François ''Sosthènes'' I de La Rochefoucauld, Viscount of La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of Doudeauville Grandee, GE (19 February 1785 – 5 October 1864), was a 19th-century French ultra-royalist politician. From 1814 to 1836, he was aide-de- ...

and Elisabeth-Hélène-Pierre de Montmorency Laval (the daughter of the French

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Mathieu de Montmorency Mathieu Jean Felicité de Montmorency, 1st Duke of Montmorency-Laval (10 July 1767 – 24 March 1826) was a French statesman during the French Revolution and Bourbon Restoration. He was elected as the youngest deputy to the Estates-General of ...

, 1st

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). His maternal grandparents were the Belgian Ambassador to France,

Eugène, 8th Prince of Ligne Eugène François Charles Joseph Lamoral de Ligne d'Amblise et d'Epinoy (28 January 1804 – 20 May 1880), 8th Prince of Ligne and of the Holy Roman Empire was a Belgian diplomat and liberal politician. Early life He was born in Brussels on 2 ...

, and, his third wife, Princess Jadwiga Lubomirska (a daughter of Ukrainian Prince

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Career

On 16 May 1851, his father was created

(''Duca di Bisaccia'') by King Ferdinand II in the peerage of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (second creation; through his grandmother's family, the

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s). They were also inscripted among the Bavarian nobility as Princes under the title Duke of Bisaccia (''

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von Bisaccia''), on 24 November 1855 by King Maximilian II. His elder brother Charles inherited his father's dukedoms, only taking the Spanish title of

, while transferring the title of

to Armand, and the Sicilian title, Duke of Bisaccia, to Édouard, making him the 3rd Duke of Bisaccia in 1908. From his father, he also inherited the

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Saint-Symphorien-le-Château Saint-Symphorien-le-Château () is a former commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. In January 2012 it merged with Bleury into the new commune Bleury-Saint-Symphorien, which was merged into Auneau-Bleury-Saint-Symphorien on ...

Eure-et-Loir Eure-et-Loir (, locally: ) is a French department, named after the Eure and Loir rivers. It is located in the region of Centre-Val de Loire. In 2019, Eure-et-Loir had a population of 431,575.Sosthènes I, had inherited through his 1779 marriage into the Montmorency-Laval family. In 1910, he became a member of the Société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir.

Personal life

On 19 June 1901, Rochefoucauld married Camille de Colbert-Chabanais (1883–1969), a daughter of Édouard de Colbert, 3rd Baron de Colbert, Marquis de Chabannais (a grandson of

Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais Brigadier-General Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais (18 October 1777 – 3 January 1809) was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He became a general officer of cavalry during the Napoleoni ...

), and Françoise Marie Auguste de Berckheim (daughter of Baron ). Together, they were the parents of: * ''Marie-Carmen'' Élisabeth Françoise Gabrielle de la Rochefoucauld (1902–1999), who married Count Louis Gabriel Raoul de Mailly-Nesle in 1928. * Count ''Stanislas'' Édouard François Marie de La Rochefoucauld (1903–1965), who married

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n-born French actress Alice Cocéa, the sister of

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journalist and novelist

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, in 1926. They divorced in 1931, and he married married Princess Jeanne of Sanfelice de Viggiano, a daughter of ''Don'' Luigi Sanfelice, Prince of Viggiano, Marquess of Monteforte, and Princess Jeanne de Bauffremont-Courtenay (a daughter of Prince Paul de Bauffremont and Countess

Valentine de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay Countess ''Valentine'' Marie Henriette de Riquet de Caraman–Chimay (15 February 1839 – 25 August 1914) was a Belgian princess. Early life She was a younger daughter of Belgian diplomat and industrialist Joseph de Riquet de Caraman, 17th Prin ...

), in 1947. * Élisabeth de La Rochefoucauld (1909–2006), married Elliot Robert Le Gras du Luart de Montsaulnin, son of Roland Le Gras, Marquis du Luart, in 1929. She later married Mario Fausto Maria Pinci, in 1958. The Duke died in Paris on 9 February 1968. Upon his death, the Château d'Esclimont passed to his eldest daughter Marie-Carmen, Countess of Mailly-Nesle.

Descendants

Through his daughter Marie-Carmen, he was a grandfather of Laure-Suzanne-Marie (

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de Mailly-Nesle) Maingard, who sold the Château d'Esclimont in 1981 to René Traversac, president of the luxury hotel group "Les Grandes Étapes Françaises". Traversac's son, Pierre Traversac, sold the estate for €35 million in January 2015. Through his daughter Élisabeth, he was a grandfather of

Roland du Luart Roland du Luart (born 12 March 1940) is a former member of the Senate of France, who represented the Sarthe department. He was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement The Union for a Popular Movement ( ; UMP ) was a Liberal conservatism, ...

, Marquis du Luart (b. 1940), a former member of the

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, who has been president of the

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since 2014 (like Édouard's father and brother, Armand).

References

External links

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