Pineton de Chambrun
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The Pineton de Chambrun is a French aristocratic family, of which several members have taken an important part in French politics. Their nobility was proved in 1491. The Pineton de Chambrun originally come from the Gévaudan
region, and many members were mayors or deputies of Lozère
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in Paris, on 8 June 1859, with Charles Adolphe Pineton de Chambrun (10 August 1831, Marjevols - 13 September 1891, New York
), a lawyer in New York .
The descendants of Marthe Tircuy de Corcelle and Charles Adolphe Pineton de Chambrun include:
Gévaudan
Gévaudan is a historical area of France, nowadays situated in Lozère département. It took its name from the Gabali, a Gallic tribe subordinate to the Arverni.- History :...
region, and many members were mayors or deputies of Lozère
Lozère
Lozère , is a department in southeast France near the Massif Central, named after Mont Lozère.- History :Lozère is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...
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- Joseph, Dominique, Aldebert de Chambrun (19 November 1821 - 6 February 1899), was a prefect then deputy of Lozère, then senator from 30 January 1876 to 4 January 1879.
- Charles de Chambrun (1827–1880), French politician.
Descendants of Lafayette
Descendants include direct lineage of the Marquis de Lafayette, 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 Mottier de La Fayette, at the Église de la MadeleineÉglise de la Madeleine
L'église de la Madeleine is a Roman Catholic church occupying a commanding position in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It was designed in its present form as a temple to the glory of Napoleon's army...
in Paris, on 8 June 1859, with Charles Adolphe Pineton de Chambrun (10 August 1831, Marjevols - 13 September 1891, New York
New York City
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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, OrneEssay, OrneEssay is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France....
- 17 January 1948, AlgiersAlgiers' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000...
) who married the explorer of Africa Pierre Savorgnan de BrazzaPierre Savorgnan de BrazzaPietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà, best known as Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza , was a Franco-Italian explorer, born in Italy and later naturalized Frenchman...
. - Pierre de ChambrunPierre de ChambrunPierre de Chambrun was a French politician.Charles Louis Antoine Pierre Gilbert Pineton de Chambrun was born in Paris. The Pineton de Chambrun family was of noble origin and politically prominent, providing several members of the Senate of France and the Chamber of Deputies of France representing...
(1865–1954) was elected deputy under the Third RepublicFrench Third RepublicThe French Third Republic was the republican government of France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed due to the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, to 1940, when France was overrun by Nazi Germany during World War II, resulting in the German and Italian occupations of France...
(1898–1933) then senator (1933–1941) of the LozèreLozèreLozère , is a department in southeast France near the Massif Central, named after Mont Lozère.- History :Lozère is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...
department. He was part of the Vichy 80 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 régimeVichy FranceVichy France, Vichy Regime, or Vichy Government, are common terms used to describe the government of France that collaborated with the Axis powers from July 1940 to August 1944. This government succeeded the Third Republic and preceded the Provisional Government of the French Republic...
under the leadership of Marshal Philippe PétainPhilippe PétainHenri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain , generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain , was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France , from 1940 to 1944...
. Pierre de Chambrun became a member of the Provisionary Consultative Assembly (Assemblée consultative provisoire) in 1944-1945.- His son Gilbert de Chambrun, (1909–2009), was a diplomatDiplomatA diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...
, mayor of Marjevols from 1953 to 1965, deputy in the Constituent AssemblyConstituent assemblyA constituent assembly is a body composed for the purpose of drafting or adopting a constitution...
of 1946, deputy of Lozère from 1946 to 1955 who sieged in the parliamentary group of the French Communist PartyFrench Communist PartyThe French Communist Party is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism.Although its electoral support has declined in recent decades, the PCF retains a large membership, behind only that of the Union for a Popular Movement , and considerable influence in French...
(PCF).
- His son Gilbert de Chambrun, (1909–2009), was a diplomat
- Charles de ChambrunCharles de Chambrun (1875-1952)Charles Pineton de Chambrun was a French diplomat and writer.-Life:He was the son of a judicial counsellor to the French ambassador to the United States...
(1875–1952), diplomat and writer, member of the Académie françaiseAcadémie françaiseL'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
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- Charles de Chambrun (1930), grandson of Charles (1857–1952) and nephew of Gilbert de Chambrun, was an administrator of societies, and mayor of MontrodatMontrodatMontrodat is a commune in the Lozère departement in southern France.-References:*...
(Lozère). Gaullist deputy of Lozère from 1962 to 1973, he was named Secretary of State to Foreign Trade in 1966, during the third government of Georges PompidouGeorges PompidouGeorges Jean Raymond Pompidou was a French politician. He was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968, holding the longest tenure in this position, and later President of the French Republic from 1969 until his death in 1974.-Biography:...
. From 1986 to 1988, he was deputy of the GardGardGard is a département located in southern France in the Languedoc-Roussillon region.The department is named after the River Gard, although the formerly Occitan name of the River Gard, Gardon, has been replacing the traditional French name in recent decades, even among French speakers.- History...
department as a member of the National Front.
- Charles de Chambrun (1930), grandson of Charles (1857–1952) and nephew of Gilbert de Chambrun, was an administrator of societies, and mayor of Montrodat
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- Jacques Aldebert de Chambrun (23 July 1872, Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
- 22 April 1962, Paris), General, high officer of the Legion of Honour (Légion d'honneur), member of the Society of the CincinnatiSociety of the CincinnatiThe Society of the Cincinnati is a historical organization with branches in the United States and France founded in 1783 to preserve the ideals and fellowship of the American Revolutionary War officers and to pressure the government to honor pledges it had made to officers who fought for American...
of France and of the Jockey ClubJockey ClubThe Jockey Club is the largest commercial organisation in British horseracing. Although no longer responsible for the governance and regulation of the sport, it owns 14 of Britain's famous racecourses, including Aintree, Cheltenham and Newmarket, amongst other concerns such as the National Stud and...
. He married on 19 February 1901, in Cincinnati, Clara Eleanor Longworth (1873–1954), herself sister of Nicholas LongworthNicholas LongworthNicholas Longworth IV was a prominent American politician in the Republican Party during the first few decades of the 20th century...
who married Alice RooseveltAlice Roosevelt LongworthAlice Lee Roosevelt Longworth was the oldest child of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. She was the only child of Roosevelt and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee....
, daughter of the US President Theodore RooseveltTheodore RooseveltTheodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
. Their offspring would include:- René de ChambrunRené de ChambrunRené de Chambrun , was a lawyer at the Court of Appeals of Paris and of the New York State Bar Association and a descendant of Lafayette, as well as a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, and honorary president of the Sons of the American Revolution in France...
(1906–2002), lawyer at the Court of Appeal of Paris and in the Bar of New York, and president of the BaccaratBaccarat (company)Baccarat Crystal is a manufacturer of fine crystal glassware located in Baccarat, France. The company owns two museums: the Musée Baccarat in Baccarat, Meurthe-et-Moselle and the Galerie-Musée Baccarat, on the Place des États-Unis in Paris...
Cristalleries. René de Chambrun married Pierre LavalPierre LavalPierre Laval was a French politician. He was four times President of the council of ministers of the Third Republic, twice consecutively. Following France's Armistice with Germany in 1940, he served twice in the Vichy Regime as head of government, signing orders permitting the deportation of...
's daughter Josée, and who later defended, post-war, Laval's memory. He bought the Château de la Grange-BléneauChâteau de la Grange-BléneauThe Château de la Grange-Bléneau is a castle in the commune of Courpalay in the Seine-et-Marne département of France.-History:Recorded since the 13th century, the castle has belonged to several families: Courtenay, Aubusson-La Feuillade and d'Aguesseau. Ownership passed from Henriette d'Aguesseau...
, a castleCastleA castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble...
in the communeCommunes of FranceThe commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
of CourpalayCourpalayCourpalay is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.-External links:* * *...
in the Seine-et-MarneSeine-et-MarneSeine-et-Marne is a French department, named after the Seine and Marne rivers, and located in the Île-de-France region.- History:Seine-et-Marne is one of the original 83 departments, created on March 4, 1790 during the French Revolution in application of the law of December 22, 1789...
département 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.
- René de Chambrun
External links
- Maria Petringa's 1997 "Brief Life of a Lover of Africa" a short biography of Savorgnan de Brazza with several mentions of his wife Therese de Chambrun, 3 October 2006: The mortal remains of explorer Brazza, his wife, and children were exhumed in Algeria and reinterred in the new Brazza Mausoleum in Brazzaville, Congo
- A site dedicated to Brazza's life and times, with a photo of his wife, Therese de Chambrun (in French, Italian or English)