Charles de Chambrun (1875–1952)

Charles de Chambrun

Charles Pineton de Chambrun (Washington, 10 February 1875 – 6 November 1952) was a French diplomat and writer.

Life

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. From 1928–33 he represented France in Ankara, and then became ambassador to Rome from 1933–35.

In Rome he married Marie de Rohan Chabot (1876–1951)^[1], daughter of the Duchess of Rohan and widow of prince Lucien Murat. She was a writer, galleriste and landscape and portrait painter.

With Paul Claudel, Maurice Garcon, Marcel Pagnol, Jules Romains and Henri Mondor he was one of six people elected on the 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.

Decorations

• 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

Notes and references

1. ^ « 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

External links

• Académie Française

Preceded by Maurice Paléologue

Seat 19 of the Académie française 1946–1952

Succeeded by Fernand Gregh

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Name	Chambrun, Charles de
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Date of birth	10 February 1875
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Date of death	6 November 1952
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