Count Jean André Hubert Pastré (2 December 1888 – 29 June 1960) was a French

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player. He played

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Early life

Jean Pastré was born in 1888. He was the son of Count Ange André Pastré (1856-1926) and Clara Goldschmidt (1866-1930). His paternal grandfather, Eugène Pastré, was a French shipowner and merchant, and the first owner of the Château Pastré in

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Polo

Pastré became a polo player. In 1913, he played polo as part of the Red Devils team alongside Captain J. Jaubert, F. Egan, E. Targett in the Laversine Open Polo Cup at the Château de Laversine, Baron

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's estate near

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. A year later, in 1914, he played as a member of the Quidnuncs team alongside Captain C. G. Higgins, Captain E. D. Miller, and M. F. Mallet at the Cote d'Azur Polo Club in Mandelieu near

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.Tournament at Cannes
''London Standard'', 19 February 1914 The

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was in attendance. Several years later, in 1922, he played polo in

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alongside R. Bamberger, Count

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, and Hubert de Monbrison.''Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes'', Vinton, 1922, Volume 118, p. 1

/ref> The match was attended by the Prime Minister, Poincare, and his wife, as well as Marshal

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. He played

alongside Count Charles de Polignac, Hubert de Monbrison and Count Pierre de Junilhae, against the American team, composed of Thomas Hitchcock, Frederick Roe,

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, and Elmer Boeseke. He served as the first secretary of the French Polo Federation.Horace A. Laffaye, ''The Polo Encyclopedia'', Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2004, p. 288

Personal life

He married Marie-Louise Double de Saint-Lambert, a philanthropist from Marseille, who became known as Countess

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.Le Salon de Lily, Hommage à la Comtesse Pastré, mécène
, Culture 13
, Culture 13 They had three children: Nadia, Nicole and Pierre. They resided in

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and summered at the Château Pastré in

. They divorced in 1940, and she was given the château.

Death

He died in 1960.

References

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