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.

Early life

He was born at Paris on 12 March 1811, the son of the general Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord, 2nd

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and, later, the 2nd Duke of Talleyrand-Périgord (1787–1872), and of Princess

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, Duchess of Sagan (1793–1862). His siblings were Dorothée de Talleyrand-Périgord (who died young); Alexandre Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord (who married Valentine de Sainte-Aldegonde); and

Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord Joséphine Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord, Marquise de Castellane (29 December 1820 12 October 1890) was a French noblewoman. Early life Joséphine Pauline was born in Paris on 29 December 1820. She was the third legitimate child of the Edmo ...

(who married Henri de Castellane). His paternal grandparents were Archambaud de Talleyrand-Périgord and Madeleine Olivier de Senozan de Viriville. His mother was the illegitimate daughter of Count Alexander Batowski and Dorothea von Medem, though her mother's husband,

Peter von Biron Peter von Biron (15 February 1724 – 13 January 1800) was the last duke of Courland and Semigallia from 1769 to 1795, when it was annexed by the Russian Empire. Life and reign Peter was born in Jelgava () as the oldest son of Ernst Johann ...

, 11th and last Duke of Courland, acknowledged her as his own.

Career

In 1829, he was granted the title Duc de Valençay by

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. 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

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's government. After the

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he retired into private life. He was made a knight of the Spanish

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in 1838, and an officer of the

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on 30 June 1867, as a member of the jury of the Exposition Universelle.Adolphe Robert, Edgar Bourloton and Gaston Cougny, ''Dictionnaire des Parlementaires français'', volume V (Paris, 1891
p. 361
He was further made a knight of the Prussian

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on 12 March 1891.

Personal life

On 26 February 1829 Talleyrand married Anne Louise Charlotte de Montmorency (–1858) in Paris. The daughter of Anne Charles François de Montmorency, 5th

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, and Anne Louise Caroline de Goyon de Matignon, Countess de Gacé, she was sister to Anne Louis Raoul Victor de Montmorency, 6th Duke of Montmorency. Before her death in 1858, whom he had two sons and two daughters: * Caroline Valentine de Talleyrand-Périgord (1830–1913), who married Viscount Charles Henri d'Etchegoyen in 1852. * Charles Guillaume Frédéric ''Boson'' de Talleyrand-Périgord, 4th Duke of Talleyrand-Périgord (1832-1910), who married Jeanne Seillière, the heiress to the Baron de Seillière, army supply contractor who had enriched himself during the

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. * Marie Pauline Yolande de Talleyrand-Périgord (b. 1833) * Nicolas Raoul Adalbert de Talleyrand-Périgord (1837–1915), who married Ida Marie ''Carmen'' Aguado y MacDonnel in 1866; he inherited the dukedom of Montmorency from his maternal uncle, the 6th Duke of Montmorency. On 4 April 1861, he married Countess Hatzfeldt, the widow of Maximilian von Hatzfeldt, Rachel Elisabeth Pauline de Castellane (1823–1895). She was the daughter of Marshal

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and Louise Cordélia Eucharis Greffulhe (sister of French banker and politician Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe). Together, they had a daughter: * Marie Dorothée Louise Valençay de Talleyrand-Périgord (1862–1948), who married Karl Egon IV, the Prince of Furstenberg in 1881. After his death in 1896, she married

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, in 1898. André Germain, ''Les Clés de Proust'', Paris, éditions Sun, 1953. p. 39. He died at Berlin on 21 March 1898.

Descendants

Through his eldest son Boson, he was a grandfather of Marie Pierre Camille Louis Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, 4th Duke of Talleyrand (1859-1937), who married American heiress

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(the former wife of his cousin

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); and Paul Louis Marie Archambault Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord, ''styled'' Duke de Valençay, 5th Duke of Talleyrand (1867-1952), who married Helen Stuyvesant Morton, daughter of former

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. Through his youngest son Nicolas Raoul Adalbert, he was a grandfather of Napoléon Louis Eugène Alexandre Anne Emmanuel de Talleyrand-Périgord, 8th Duke of Montmorency (1867–1951), who married three times but died without issue, at which time the dukedom of Montmorency became extinct.

References

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