Nicholas Victor Louis Oudinot-Odinet

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Nicholas Victor Louis d'Oudinot-Odinet, Marquis d'Odinet (born August 16, 1863; died February 20, 1927) was born in Bordeaux, France a grand-nephew of Napoleon's Marshal Oudinot, Duc de Reggio of a junior branch of the Oudinot family of the French Nobility (Odinet). He was married to Eugenie d'Esting and had four children.

He studied at the University of Paris and the University of Bordeaux and wrote many essays on European unification and the role it would play in a peaceful world alongside gradual progressive reforms in international relations. For a short time he served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Paul Deschanel of the Third French Republic.

A known activist for progressive, conservative reform among the salons of Paris, he returned to his home in Bordeaux shortly after his retirement from public life. Despite his conservative republican views, he was a loyal royalist and a close friend and correspondent of Jean d'Orleans, Duc de Guise, whose daughter, Princess Isabelle d'Orleans, married Odinet's cousin Bruno, Comte d'Harcourt.