Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord

Napoléon-Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord, duc de Valençay was a French soldier and politician.

Biography

He was born at Paris on 12 March 1811, the son of the general Alexandre de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duke of Dino and later duc de Talleyrand-Périgord, and of Dorothea of Courland, duchess of Sagan. 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 Louis-Philippe's government. After the Revolution of 1848 he retired into private life. He was made a Knight of the Golden Fleece in 1838, and an officer of the Legion of Honour on 30 June 1867, as a member of the jury of the Exposition Universelle.[1]

Talleyrand married firstly, at Paris on 26 Feb 1829, Anne Louise Charlotte de Montmorency (13 October 1810–13 September 1858), by whom he had two sons, Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord and Adalbert, Duke of Montmorency, and two daughters. He married secondly, on 4 April 1861, Pauline de Castellane (6 July 1823–9 March 1895), by whom he had a third daughter, Dorothée. He died at Berlin on 21 March 1898.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Adolphe Robert, Edgar Bourloton and Gaston Cougny, Dictionnaire des Parlementaires français, volume V (Paris, 1891) p. 361.
  2. ↑ Paul Theroff, Talleyrand. An Online Gotha. Accessed 6 April 2016.
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