Adolphe de Chambrun
{{Short description|French historian, jurist and non-fiction writer}}
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| birth_name = Charles-Adolphe Pineton de Chambrun
| birth_date = {{birthdate|1831|08|10|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Marvejols, Lozère, France
| death_date = {{dda|1891|09|13|1831|08|10|df=yes}}
| death_place = New York City, U.S.
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| education = École Nationale des Chartes
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| occupation = Historian, jurist, writer
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| boards = Marie Simone Victorine Virginie de Framond de La Framondie
| spouse = Louis-Charles Pineton de Chambrun
Marie Henriette Hélène Marthe Tircuy de Corcelle
| children = 4
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| relatives = Francisque de Corcelle (father-in-law)
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (son-in-law)
René de Chambrun (grandson)
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Charles-Adolphe Pineton de Chambrun, Marquis of Chambrun (10 August 1831 – 13 September 1891) was a French historian, jurist and non-fiction writer.
Early life
Adolphe de Chambrun was born on 10 August 1831, in Marvejols, Lozère, France. He was the son of Marie Simone Victorine Virginie de Framond de La Framondie (b. {{circa|1800}}) and Count Louis-Charles Pineton de Chambrun (1774–1860), émigré of the Army of Condé, colonel of cavalry, deputy of Lozère.{{cite web|title=Adolphe de Chambrun (1831–1891)|url=http://data.bnf.fr/12595926/adolphe_de_chambrun/|website=Bibliothèque nationale de France|accessdate=August 7, 2016}}
He was a first cousin of Joseph Dominique Aldebert de Chambrun, a prefect, deputy of Lozère, and senator, and Charles de Chambrun, a member of the Chamber of Deputies.{{cite web|title=Charles, Emmanuel Pineton de Chambrun|url=http://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche/(num_dept)/8406|website=National Assembly|accessdate=August 6, 2016}}
Career
De Chambrun was an historian and a jurist. He served as a legal attache at the Embassy of France, Washington, D.C.{{cite news|title=Marquis de Chambrun Dead. Noted French Lawyer Residing in New York Passes Away|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/38305194/?terms=%22Adolphe%2Bpineton%22|accessdate=August 7, 2016|work=The Centralia Entreprise and Tribune|location=Centralia, Wisconsin|date=September 19, 1891|page=2|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }}{{cite news|title=Marquis de Chambrun Dead.|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/10807811/?terms=%22Adolphe%2Bpineton%22|accessdate=August 7, 2016|work=The Weekly Wisconsin|location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin|date=September 19, 1891|page=9|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }}
De Chambrun was the author of several books on the United States.
Personal life and death
On 8 June 1859 at the Église de la Madeleine in Paris, de Chambrun married Marie Henriette Hélène Marthe Tircuy de Corcelle, a daughter of Francisque de Corcelle and granddaughter of Marie Antoinette Virginie du Motier de La Fayette (daughter of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette). In New York, they resided on West 23rd Street in Chelsea, Manhattan. Together, they had one daughter and three sons:
- Marie-Thérèse Virginie Françoise Pineton de Chambrun (1860–1948), who married explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza.{{cite book |last1=Berenson |first1=Edward |title=Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa |date=2011 |publisher=Univ of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-27258-3 |page=283 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Heroes_of_Empire/l7MwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA283 |access-date=28 June 2024 |language=en}}
- Pierre Pineton de Chambrun (1865–1954), who married Margaret Rives Nichols, daughter of George Ward Nichols and Maria Longworth, in 1895.{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=DE CHAMBRUN, 88, DIPLOMAT, IS DEAD; Marquis, an Ex-Senator, Was Descendant of Lafayette Opposed Petain in Vichy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/08/25/archives/dg-chabrtll-88-diplomat-i8-dehd-marquis-an-exsenator-was-descendant.html?searchResultPosition=4 |access-date=28 June 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=25 August 1954}}
- Aldebert Pineton de Chambrun (1872–1962), who married Clara Eleanor Longworth, sister of Nicholas Longworth (who married Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt), in 1901.{{cite news |title=Gen. Count de Chambrun Dies; A Descendant of Lafayette, 89 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/04/24/archives/gen-count-de-chambrun-dies-a-descendant-of-lafayette-89.html?searchResultPosition=2 |access-date=28 June 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=24 April 1962}}
- Charles Pineton de Chambrun (1875–1952), who married Marie de Rohan-Chabot, 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) in 1934.{{cite news |title=PRINCESS MURAT WED TO DIPLOMAT; Widow of Prince Lucien Is Bride in Rome of Count Charles de Chambrun. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/11/23/archives/priness-murat-wed-to-diplomat-widow-of-prince-lucien-is-bride-in.html?searchResultPosition=2 |access-date=28 June 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=23 November 1934}}
Works
- {{cite book|last1=de Chambrun|first1=Adolphe|title=Quelques réflexions sur l'art dramatique : Mlle. Rachel, ses succès, ses défauts|url=https://archive.org/details/quelquesrflexio00chamgoog|date=1853|publisher=Garnier|location=Paris|oclc=867401250}}
- {{cite book|last1=de Chambrun|first1=Adolphe|title=Du régime parlementaire en France : essai de politique contemporaine|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RyhsMwcEeJ4C|date=1857|publisher=Didier|location=Paris|oclc=48306135}}
- {{cite book|last1=de Chambrun|first1=Adolphe|title=Le pouvoir exécutif aux États-Unis : étude de droit constitutionnel|date=1876|publisher=Ernest Thorin|location=Paris|oclc=934073764}}
- {{cite book|last1=de Chambrun|first1=Adolphe|title=Les conditions du travail aux États-Unis|date=1891|publisher=Berger-Levrault et cie|location=Paris|oclc=41198618}}
- {{cite book|last1=de Chambrun|first1=Adolphe|title=Droits et libertés aux Etats-Unis : leurs origines et leurs progrès|url=https://archive.org/details/droitsetliberts00chamgoog|date=1891|publisher=Ernest Thorin|location=Paris|oclc=60720915}}
Further reading
- {{cite book|last1=de Chambrun|first1=Adolphe|last2=de Corcelle |first2=Marie Hélène Marthe|editor1-last=de Chambrun |editor1-first=René|title=Un Français chez les Lincoln : lettres inédites adressées pendant la guerre de Sécession|date=1976|publisher=Librairie académique Perrin|location=Paris|isbn=9782262000387|oclc=3868356}}
References
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External links
- [https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Chambrun%2C+Adolphe+de+Pineton%2C+marquis+de%2C+1831-1891%22 Chambrun, Adolphe de Pineton, marquis de, 1831-1891] at Internet Archive
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