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
Gévaudan region, where many members were
mayors or deputies of
Lozère.
First family members in French politics
Louis Charles Pineton de Chambrun (1774–1860), émigré of the
Army of Condé, colonel of cavalry, deputy of Lozère.
Joseph Dominique Aldebert de Chambrun (19 November 1821 – 6 February 1899), was a
prefect, deputy of Lozère, and senator from 30 January 1876 to 4 January 1879.
Descendants include direct lineage of the
Marquis de Lafayette, 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
Église de la Madeleine in Paris, on 8 June 1859, with Charles Adolphe Pineton de Chambrun (10 August 1831,
Marjevols – 13 September 1891,
New York), a lawyer in New York.[1]
The descendants of Marthe Tircuy de Corcelle and Charles Adolphe Pineton de Chambrun include:
Pierre de Chambrun (1865–1954) was elected deputy under the
Third Republic (1898–1933) then senator (1933–1941) of the
Lozère department. He was part of the
Vichy 80 minority group of French elected parliamentarians who, on 10 July 1940, voted against the constitutional change that dissolved the Third Republic and established the state of the
Vichy régime under the leadership of Marshal
Philippe Pétain. Pierre de Chambrun became a member of the
Provisional Consultative Assembly in 1944–1945. He married on 12 December 1895 Margaret Rives Nichols, daughter of
George Ward Nichols and
Maria Longworth; they had three children:
Jean-Pierre de Chambrun, Marquis de Chambrun (1903–2004), who married Gisèle Hugot-Gratry (1909–2005), heiress of the French monument historiqueManor of Ango; they had three sons including:
Charles de Chambrun (1930–2010) was an administrator of societies and
mayor of
Montrodat (Lozère).
Gaullist deputy of Lozère from 1962 to 1973, he was named Secretary of State to Foreign Trade in 1966, during the third government of
Georges Pompidou. From 1986 to 1988, he was deputy of the
Gard department as a member of the
National Front.
René de Chambrun (1906–2002), lawyer at the
Court of Appeal of Paris and in the Bar of New York, and president of the
Baccarat Cristalleries. René de Chambrun married
Pierre Laval's daughter Josée, and who later defended, post-war, Laval's memory. He bought the
Château de la Grange-Bléneau, a
castle in the commune of
Courpalay in the
Seine-et-Marnedépartement 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.[3] 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.[4]
Charles de Chambrun (1875–1952), diplomat and writer, member of the
Académie française; he married Marie de Rohan-Chabot (1876–1951), widow of prince
Lucien Murat and daughter of Alain de Rohan-Chabot,
Duke of Rohan, 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,
ISBN978-1-4259-1198-0
Notes
^Chaffanjon, Arnaud, La Fayette et sa descendance, Berger-Levraud, Paris, 1976
"Congo burial for explorer Brazza". BBC News. 3 October 2006. Retrieved 22 May 2010., 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