Pineton de Chambrun

The Pineton de Chambrun is a French aristocratic family, of which several members have taken an important part in French politics. Their nobility was proved in 1491. The Pineton de Chambrun originally come from the Gévaudan region, and many members were mayors or deputies of Lozère.

• Joseph, Dominique, Aldebert de Chambrun (19 November 1821 - 6 February 1899), was a prefect then deputy of Lozère, then senator from 30 January 1876 to 4 January 1879.
• Charles de Chambrun (1827–1880), French politician.

Descendants of Lafayette

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 Mottier 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:

• Marie Thérèse Virginie Françoise de Chambrun (30 June 1860, Essay, Orne - 17 January 1948, Algiers) who married the explorer of Africa Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza.
• 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 Provisionary Consultative Assembly (Assemblée consultative provisoire) in 1944-1945.
  • His son Gilbert de Chambrun, (1909–2009), was a diplomat, mayor of Marjevols from 1953 to 1965, deputy in the Constituent Assembly of 1946, deputy of Lozère from 1946 to 1955 who sieged in the parliamentary group of the French Communist Party (PCF).
• Charles de Chambrun (1875–1952), diplomat and writer, member of the Académie française.
  • • Charles de Chambrun (1930–2010), grandson of Charles (1857–1952) and nephew of Gilbert de Chambrun, 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.
• Jacques Aldebert de Chambrun (23 July 1872, Washington, D.C. - 22 April 1962, Paris), General, high officer of the Legion of Honour (Légion d'honneur), member of the Society of the Cincinnati of France and of the Jockey Club. He married on 19 February 1901, in Cincinnati, Clara Eleanor Longworth (1873–1954), herself sister of Nicholas Longworth who married Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the US President Theodore Roosevelt. Their offspring would include:
  • 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-Marne département 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.^[2] 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.^[3]

References

• Maria Petringa, Brazza, A Life for Africa, Bloomington, In; AuthorHouse, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4259-1198-0

Notes

1. Chaffanjon, Arnaud, La Fayette et sa descendance, Berger-Levraud, Paris, 1976
2. René de Chambrun's Introduction to André Maurois' Adrienne: The Life of the Marquise de la Fayette, McGraw-Hill, 1961, p. x
3. Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

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
• "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
• A site dedicated to Brazza's life and times, with a photo of his wife, Therese de Chambrun (in French, Italian or English)