Victor-François, 8th duc de Broglie
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Victor-François Marie Léon, 8th duc de Broglie (b. 25 March 1949), is a French aristocrat and current holder of the title duc de Broglie.
Eldest son of the French politician Jean de Broglie (1921–1976), Victor-François de Broglie acceded to the ducal title on the death without heir of his cousin, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Louis, 7th duc de Broglie in 1987. (Victor-François's great-grandfather, Victor, 5th duc de Broglie, was Louis de Broglie's grandfather, and there was no other surviving senior male; for details, see the genealogy below).
The present duke is unmarried, and so are his next two brothers. However, there are several junior cousins, some with young sons.
The duc de Broglie is active in local right-wing politics in the Eure, and has served as mayor of the ducal seat of Broglie there.
His garden includes 650 varieties of heirloom tomatoes.[1]
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- ^ Susan Sampson, The tomato is prince's domain, Toronto: The Toronto Star, 15 November 2006.
