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.[1]

Napoléon Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord
Duke of Valençay, Duke of Talleyrand, Duke of Dino
Born(1811-03-12)12 March 1811
Died21 March 1898(1898-03-21) (aged 87)
Spouse
Anne Louise Charlotte de Montmorency
(m. 1829; died 1858)

Rachel Elisabeth Pauline de Castellane, daughter of Boniface de Castellane
(m. 1861; died 1895)
IssueCaroline Valentine de Talleyrand-Périgord
Charles Guillaume Frédéric Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord
Marie Pauline Yolande de Talleyrand-Périgord
Nicolas Raoul Adalbert de Talleyrand-Périgord
Marie Dorothée Louise Valençay de Talleyrand-Périgord
FatherEdmond de Talleyrand-Périgord
MotherDorothea von Biron

Early life

He was born at Paris on 12 March 1811, the son of the general Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord (1787–1872), Duke of Dino and later the 2nd Duke de Talleyrand-Périgord, and of Dorothea of Courland (1793–1862), duchess of Sagan.[1][2]

His younger brother was Alexandre Edmond (1813–1894), 3rd duc de Dino, marquis de Talleyrand, who married Marie Valentine Joséphine de Sainte-Aldegonde (1820–1891). His younger sister was Joséphine Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord (1820–1890) who married Henri de Castellane (1814–1847).[3]

Career

In 1829, he was granted the title Duc de Valençay by Charles X of France.[4]

Like his father, he followed a military career. After leaving the army, he was called to the Chamber of Peers on 19 April 1845, where he voted with the supporters of Louis-Philippe's government.

After the Revolution of 1848 he retired into private life. He was made a Knight of the Golden Fleece in 1838, and an officer of the Legion of Honour on 30 June 1867, as a member of the jury of the Exposition Universelle.[1]

Personal life

Talleyrand married firstly, at Paris on 26 Feb 1829, Anne Louise Charlotte de Montmorency (1810/3-1858), by whom he had two sons and two daughters:[4]

  • Caroline Valentine de Talleyrand-Périgord (1830–1913), who married Vicomte Charles Henri d'Etchegoyen (1818–1885) in 1852.
  • Charles Guillaume Frédéric Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord, 4th duc de Talleyrand-Périgord (1832-1910),[5] who married Jeanne Seillière (1839-1905), the heiress to Baron de Seilliere, army supply contractor who had enriched himself during the Franco-Prussian War.[6]
  • Marie Pauline Yolande de Talleyrand-Périgord (b. 1833)
  • Nicolas Raoul Adalbert de Talleyrand-Périgord (1837–1915), Duke of Montmorency, who married Ida Marie Carmen Aguado y Mac Donnel (1847–1880) in 1866.

He married secondly, on 4 April 1861, Rachel Elisabeth Pauline de Castellane (1823–1895),[2] daughter of Boniface, Marshal de Castellane, then Countess Hatzfeldt (widow of Maximilian von Hatzfeldt),[2] by whom he had a third daughter:

He died at Berlin on 21 March 1898.

References

  1. Adolphe Robert, Edgar Bourloton and Gaston Cougny, Dictionnaire des Parlementaires français, volume V (Paris, 1891) p. 361.
  2. Dino (duchesse de), Dorothée (1909). Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino: 1831-1835. W. Heinemann. p. 346. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  3. "Napoléon-Louis Talleyrand-Périgord (1811-1898) - Author - Resources from the BnF". data.bnf.fr. Biblitheque nationale de France. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  4. "THE TALLEYRAND BED". pelhamgalleries.com. Pelham Galleries. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1911. pp. 1001–1002. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  6. "Talleyrand Dead. Wed Anna Gould. Duke Was Known as Prince of Sagan at Time of Courtship in First of Century". New York Times. October 27, 1937. Retrieved 2011-11-18. Marie Pierre Camille Louis Helie de Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince of Sagan and fifth Duke of Talleyrand, was a principal in one of the international marriage of the first decade of this century. He married Anna Gould, heir to more than $80,000,000 of the fortune of her father, the late Jay Gould, after she had divorced his cousin, Count Boni de Castellane. ...
French nobility
Preceded by
Edmond
de Talleyrand-Périgord
Duke of Talleyrand and Dino
1872–1898
Succeeded by
Charles Frédéric Boson
de Talleyrand-Périgord
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