''Alain'' Charles Louis de Rohan-Chabot (1 December 1844 – 6 June 1914), Prince of Léon, 11th

Duke of Rohan Duke of Rohan is a title of French nobility, associated with the Breton region of Rohan, Morbihan, Rohan. Duke of Rohan House of Rohan House of Chabot House of Rohan-Chabot ''The title ''prince de Léon'' is used a courtesy title until the ...

, deputy of

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Early life

Rohan-Chabot was born on 1 December 1844 in Paris. He was the son of Charles Louis Josselin de Rohan-Chabot (1819–1893), 10th Duke of Rohan, and Octavie Rouillé de Boissy (1824–1866). His sister, Marie-Joséphine de Rohan-Chabot, was the wife of Odet de Montault, Viscount of Montault, and, after his death, Count Arthur de Rougé. His paternal grandparents were Anne-Louis Fernand de Rohan-Chabot, 9th Duke of Rohan,

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, '' aide de camp'' of the

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, Squire of the Duke of Bordeaux, and the former Joséphine Françoise de Gontaut-Biron de Saint-Blancard (a daughter of Lt.-Gen. Charles Michel de Gontaut, Viscount of Gontaut-Biron-Saint-Blancard). His maternal grandparents were Hilaire-Etienne-Octave Rouillé, Marquis of Boissy, and Amélie-Charlotte-Julie de Musnier de Folleville.

Career

The Prince of Léon was a Royalist Deputy to the

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for the Ploermell division of Morbihan and a member of the Departmental council. Upon his father's death in 1893, he became the 11th

Personal life

On 26 June 1872, he married Marie Marguerite Henriette Antoinette Amable ''Herminie'' de La Brousse de Verteillac (1853–1926), poetess, daughter of Charles ''César'' Augustin de La Brousse de Verteillac, Baron de La Tour Blanche, and his second wife, Marie Henriette de Leuze. She was also a granddaughter of François Gabriel Thibault de La Brousse, Marquis de Verteillac. Together, they were the parents of five children: * Marie-Joséphine-''Anne'' de Rohan-Chabot (1873–1903), who married Count

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 ...

(grandson of

and nephew of Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord), in 1891. * ''Marie''-Augustine de Rohan-Chabot (1876–1951), who married Prince Lucien Napoléon

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, a son of Prince Achille Murat and Princess Salomé Dadiani, in 1897. After his death in 1933, she married Count Charles de Chambrun in 1934. * Josselin de Rohan Chabot (1879–1916), 12th Duke of Rohan who was killed during

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; he married Marguerite-Marie de Rohan-Chabot, a daughter of Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, in 1906. * Françoise de Rohan Chabot (1881–1957), who married Charles de Riquet, Duke of Caraman, in 1900. * Jehan de Rohan Chabot (1884–1968), who Anne de Talhouët-Roy in 1906. They lived at the Hôtel de Verteillac (renamed Hôtel de Rohan), 35 boulevard des Invalides in Paris, the

Château de Josselin Josselin Castle (, , ) is a medieval castle at Josselin, in the Morbihan department of Brittany, France, first built in 1008 by Guéthénoc, viscount of Porhoët. The town and castle were named after Guéthénoc's son, Goscelinus, and rebuilt at ...

, and the Chalet des Fées in Pontaillac, built by his wife's father, the Marquis de Verteillac, on the Défé estate he had acquired in 1865. The Duke died in Paris on 6 June 1914. His widow died in the

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in 1926.

References

External links

Rohan Family
at Britannica {{DEFAULTSORT:Rohan-Chabot, Alain De 1844 births 1914 deaths

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Nobility from Paris