The Pineton de Chambrun family is a French noble family, of which several members have taken an important part in French politics. Their nobility was proven in 1491. The Pineton de Chambrun originally come from the

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region, where many members were

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or deputies of

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First family members in French politics

*Louis Charles Pineton de Chambrun (1774–1860), ''

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'' of the

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, colonel of cavalry, deputy of Lozère. *Joseph Dominique Aldebert de Chambrun (19 November 1821 – 6 February 1899), was a

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, deputy of Lozère, and senator from 30 January 1876 to 4 January 1879. * Charles de Chambrun (1827–1880), French politician, member of the

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. * Aldebert de Chambrun (1821-1899)

Family tree

Descendants include direct lineage of the

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, 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 Motier de La Fayette, at the

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in Paris, on 8 June 1859, with Charles Adolphe Pineton de Chambrun (10 August 1831, Marjevols – 13 September 1891,

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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, Orne – 17 January 1948,

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) who married the explorer of Africa

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. *

Pierre de Chambrun Pierre de Chambrun (11 June 1865 in Paris – 24 August 1954) was a French politician. Early life Charles Louis Antoine Pierre Gilbert Pineton de Chambrun was born in Paris. The Pineton de Chambrun family was of noble origin and politically ...

(1865–1954) was elected deputy under the Third Republic (1898–1933) then senator (1933–1941) of the

department. He was part of the

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. Pierre de Chambrun became a member of the

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in 1944–1945. He married on 12 December 1895 Margaret Rives Nichols, daughter of George Ward Nichols and Maria Longworth; they had three children: **Marthe de Chambrun (1899–1984), who married Alessandro dei Principi Ruspoli-Poggio Suasa (1895–1975); they had one son and two daughters. **Jean-Pierre de Chambrun, Marquis de Chambrun (1903–2004), who married Gisèle Hugot-Gratry (1909–2005), heiress of the French ''

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'' Manor of Ango; they had three sons including: *** Charles de Chambrun (1930–2010) was an administrator of societies and

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of Montrodat (Lozère).

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deputy of Lozère from 1962 to 1973, he was named Secretary of State to Foreign Trade in 1966, during the third government of

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. From 1986 to 1988, he was deputy of the

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, niece of US Ambassador to the United Kingdom

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, then secondly

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, the former stepmother of

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. **

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, (1909–2009), was a

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of Marjevols from 1953 to 1965, deputy in the

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of 1946, deputy of Lozère from 1946 to 1955 who sieged in the parliamentary group of the

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(PCF). He married French physician and activist Jacqueline Retourné ; they had four children. * Jacques Aldebert de Chambrun (23 July 1872,

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– 22 April 1962, Paris), ''

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'', high officer of the

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(''Légion d'honneur''), member of the

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of France and of the

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. He married on 19 February 1901, in

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, Clara Eleanor Longworth (1873–1954), herself sister of

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who married Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the US President

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. Their offspring would include: **

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(1906–2002), lawyer at the

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and in the Bar of New York, and president of the

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Cristalleries. René de Chambrun married

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's daughter Josée, and who later defended, post-war, Laval's memory. He bought the

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, a

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in the '' commune'' of

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in the

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'' 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.Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
/ref> * Charles de Chambrun (1875–1952), diplomat and writer, member of the

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; he married Marie de Rohan-Chabot (1876–1951), widow of prince

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and daughter of Alain de Rohan-Chabot,

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, and his wife Herminie, Duchess of Rohan (''née'' de La Brousse de Verteillac).

References

* Maria Petringa, ''Brazza, A Life for Africa'', Bloomington, In; AuthorHouse, 2006,

Notes

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)
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