Pierre de Cossé Brissac

He was born in 1900 in Paris.[1] His father, François de Cossé Brissac, was the 11th Duke of Brissac from 1883 to 1944. His mother was Mathilde de Crussol d'Uzès, a daughter of the 12th Duke of Uzès and Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duchess of Uzès.[2]

He wrote historical memoirs, and four of his memoirs were about his family, the Dukes of Brissac.[3] Moreover, he wrote the preface of Guide du protocole et des usages, a book on good manners written by Jacques Gandouin in 1979.[1]

May Schneider, Duchess of Brissac

Château de Brissac

In 1924, he married Marie-Zélie Antoinette Schneider (1902–1999), also known as May Schneider, the daughter of French industrialist Eugène Schneider II.[4] They resided at the Château de La Celle in La Celle-les-Bordes, France. They were the parents of two sons and two daughters:[1]

• Marie-Pierre de Brissac (b. 1925), who married Simon Nora in 1947. They divorced in 1954 she married, secondly, Maurice Herzog in 1964.
• François de Cossé Brissac (b. 1929), who married Jacqueline Alice de Contades, daughter of Count Andre de Contades and Daisy Thome, in 1958.
• Giles de Cossé-Brissac (1935–2001)
• Elvire de Brissac (b. 1939), a novelist.[5]

He died in 1993 in Paris.[1]

• Grand Master of the Order of Saint Lazarus (statuted 1910)

• La duchesse d'Uzès (Paris, Gründ, 1950, 201 pages).
• Les Brissac, Maison de Cossé (Paris: Éditions Fasquelle, 1973, 448 pages).
• A la Billebaude à travers l'Yveline (Chaumont, France: Éditions Crépin-Leblond, 1955, 214 pages).
• Chasse (Chaumont, France: Éditions Crépin-Leblond, 1957, 109 pages).
• Nord Kapp ou la Norvège vue par un Français (Paris: Éditions Del Duca, 1967).
• En d'autres temps (1900-1939) (Paris: Grasset, 1972, 455 pages).
• La suite des temps (1939-1958) (Paris: Grasset, 1974).
• Le temps qui court (1959-1974) (Paris: Grasset, 1977).
• Le château d'en face (1974-1985) (Paris: Grasset, 1986).