Charles de Chambrun | |
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| Born | 10 February 1875 |
| Died | 6 November 1952 (aged 77) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Diplomat, writer |
| Known for | Member of the Académie française |
| Spouse | Marie de Rohan-Chabot |
| Parent(s) | Charles-Adolphe de Chambrun Marie Henriette Hélène Marthe Tircuy de Corcelle |
| Relatives | Pierre de Chambrun (brother) Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (brother-in-law) René de Chambrun (nephew) |
Charles Pineton de Chambrun (10 February 1875 in Washington – 6 November 1952) was a French diplomat and writer.
Biography
He was the son of a judicial counsellor to the French ambassador to the United States. Charles served as attaché to France's ambassador to the Vatican, Berlin, then Washington.
In 1914, he became First Secretary at the St Petersburg embassy, and later served in Athens and Vienna.[1] From 1928 to 1933, he represented France in Ankara and then became ambassador to Rome from 1933 to 1935.
In Rome he married Marie de Rohan-Chabot (1876–1951),[2] daughter of the Duke and the Duchess of Rohan and widow of prince Lucien Murat. She was a writer, galleriste and landscape and portrait painter.
With Paul Claudel, Maurice Garçon, Marcel Pagnol, Jules Romains and Henri Mondor, he was one of six people elected on 4 April 1946 to the Académie française in the second group election to fill the numerous empty seats caused by the lack of elections during the German occupation of France.
Chambrun was a Grand officer of the Légion d'Honneur.
Works
- Charles de Chambrun
- Lettres à Marie, Pétersbourg-Pétrograd, 1914–1918 (1941)
- Atatürk et la Turquie nouvelle (1939)
- À l'école d'un diplomate : Vergennes (1944)
- L'Esprit de la diplomatie (1944)
- Traditions et souvenirs (1952)
- Marie de Rohan Chabot (under the name Marie de Chambrun)
- Le Roi de Rome, Plon, 1941
- Marie de Rohan Chabot (under the name Princesse Lucien Murat)
- Raspoutine et l'aube sanglante, De Boccard, s.d.
- La reine Christine de Suède, Flammarion, 1934
- Les Errants de la Gloire, Flammarion, 1933
- La vie amoureuse de la Grande Catherine coll. « Leurs amours », Flammarion, 1927
References
- ↑ Rappaport, Helen (25 August 2016). Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, 1917. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4735-1817-9.
Chambrun, Charles de (1875–1952). French diplomat and writer; First Secretary at Petrograd embassy from 1914.
- ↑ « L'autre soir à table Marie de Chambrun lâche un pet. Chambrun : "Vous parlez encore pour ne rien dire !" Jean COCTEAU / Journal (1942–1945) / Gallimard 1989