Pineton de Chambrun

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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.

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They include direct descendants 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 on 8 June 1859, with Charles Adolphe Pineton de Chambru (10 August 1831, Marjevols - 13 September 1891, New York), a lawyer in New York ^[1].

The descendants of Marie 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 explorator Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza.
• Pierre de Chambrun (1865-1954) was elected deputy under the Third Republic (1898-1933) then senator (1933-1941) of Lozère. He was part of the Vichy 80 who voted on July 10, 1940 against granting full powers to Marshall Pétain. Pierre de Chambrun became a member of the Provisionary Consultative Assembly (Assemblée consultative provisoire) in 1944-1945. His son Gilbert de Chambrun (born in 1909) 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.
• Jacques Aldebert de Chambrun (23 July 1872 Washington D.C. - 22 April 1962 Paris), General, high officer of the Legion of Honour, 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 (1837-1954), 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 became a Collaborationist who defended, post-war, Laval's memory.
• Charles de Chambrun (1930), grandson of Charles (1857-1952) and nephew of Gilbert de Chambrun (born in 1909), 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 as a member of the National Front.

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