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DeutschAdolphe de Chambrun
Adolphe de Chambrun | |
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| Born | Charles-Adolphe Pineton de Chambrun 10 August 1831 |
| Died | 13 September 1891 (aged 60) New York City, U.S. |
| Education | École Nationale des Chartes |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, jurist, writer |
| Board member of | Marie Simone Victorine Virginie de Framond de La Framondie |
| Spouse(s) | Louis-Charles Pineton de Chambrun Marie Henriette Hélène Marthe Tircuy de Corcelle |
| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | Francisque de Corcelle (father-in-law) Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (son-in-law) René de Chambrun (grandson) |
Charles-Adolphe Pineton de Chambrun, Marquis of Chambrun (10 August 1831 – 13 September 1891) was a French historian, jurist and non-fiction writer.
Early life
[edit]Adolphe de Chambrun was born on 10 August 1831, in Marvejols, Lozère, France. He was the son of Marie Simone Victorine Virginie de Framond de La Framondie (b. c. 1800) and Count Louis-Charles Pineton de Chambrun (1774–1860), émigré of the Army of Condé, colonel of cavalry, deputy of Lozère.[1]
He was a first cousin of Joseph Dominique Aldebert de Chambrun, a prefect, deputy of Lozère, and senator, and Charles de Chambrun, a member of the Chamber of Deputies.[2]
Career
[edit]De Chambrun was an historian and a jurist.[1] He served as a legal attache at the Embassy of France, Washington, D.C.[3][4]
De Chambrun was the author of several books on the United States.
Personal life and death
[edit]On 8 June 1859 at the Église de la Madeleine in Paris, de Chambrun married Marie Henriette Hélène Marthe Tircuy de Corcelle, a daughter of Francisque de Corcelle and granddaughter of Marie Antoinette Virginie du Motier de La Fayette (daughter of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette). In New York, they resided on West 23rd Street in Chelsea, Manhattan.[4] Together, they had one daughter and three sons:
- Marie-Thérèse Virginie Françoise Pineton de Chambrun (1860–1948), who married explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza.[5]
- Pierre Pineton de Chambrun (1865–1954), who married Margaret Rives Nichols, daughter of George Ward Nichols and Maria Longworth, in 1895.[6]
- Aldebert Pineton de Chambrun (1872–1962), who married Clara Eleanor Longworth, sister of Nicholas Longworth (who married Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt), in 1901.[7]
- Charles Pineton de Chambrun (1875–1952), who married Marie de Rohan-Chabot, widow of Prince Lucien Murat and daughter of Alain de Rohan-Chabot, Duke of Rohan, and his wife Herminie, Duchess of Rohan (née de La Brousse de Verteillac) in 1934.[8]
De Chambrun died in 1891 in New York City.[3][4]
Works
[edit]- de Chambrun, Adolphe (1853). Quelques réflexions sur l'art dramatique : Mlle. Rachel, ses succès, ses défauts. Paris: Garnier. OCLC 867401250.
- de Chambrun, Adolphe (1857). Du régime parlementaire en France : essai de politique contemporaine. Paris: Didier. OCLC 48306135.
- de Chambrun, Adolphe (1876). Le pouvoir exécutif aux États-Unis : étude de droit constitutionnel. Paris: Ernest Thorin. OCLC 934073764.
- de Chambrun, Adolphe (1891). Les conditions du travail aux États-Unis. Paris: Berger-Levrault et cie. OCLC 41198618.
- de Chambrun, Adolphe (1891). Droits et libertés aux Etats-Unis : leurs origines et leurs progrès. Paris: Ernest Thorin. OCLC 60720915.
Further reading
[edit]- de Chambrun, Adolphe; de Corcelle, Marie Hélène Marthe (1976). de Chambrun, René (ed.). Un Français chez les Lincoln : lettres inédites adressées pendant la guerre de Sécession. Paris: Librairie académique Perrin. ISBN 9782262000387. OCLC 3868356.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Adolphe de Chambrun (1831–1891)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
- ^ "Charles, Emmanuel Pineton de Chambrun". National Assembly. Retrieved August 6, 2016.
- ^ a b "Marquis de Chambrun Dead. Noted French Lawyer Residing in New York Passes Away". The Centralia Entreprise and Tribune. Centralia, Wisconsin. September 19, 1891. p. 2. Retrieved August 7, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "Marquis de Chambrun Dead". The Weekly Wisconsin. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 19, 1891. p. 9. Retrieved August 7, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Berenson, Edward (2011). Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa. Univ of California Press. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-520-27258-3. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
- ^ Times, Special to The New York (25 August 1954). "DE CHAMBRUN, 88, DIPLOMAT, IS DEAD; Marquis, an Ex-Senator, Was Descendant of Lafayette Opposed Petain in Vichy". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
- ^ "Gen. Count de Chambrun Dies; A Descendant of Lafayette, 89". The New York Times. 24 April 1962. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
- ^ "PRINCESS MURAT WED TO DIPLOMAT; Widow of Prince Lucien Is Bride in Rome of Count Charles de Chambrun". The New York Times. 23 November 1934. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
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