Napoléon Louis Eugène Alexandre Anne Emmanuel de Talleyrand-Périgord
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Paris, France
Paris, France
| Napoléon Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord | |
|---|---|
| Duke of Montmorency | |
 | |
| Born | 22 March 1867 Paris, France |
| Died | 26 September 1951 (aged 84) Paris, France |
| Spouse |
Anne de Rohan-Chabot
(m. 1891; died 1903)Cécile Ulman Blumenthal
(m. 1917; died 1927)Gabrielle Lefaivre Grandjean
(m. 1950; died 1951) |
| House | Talleyrand-Périgord |
| Father | Nicolas Raoul Adalbert de Talleyrand-Périgord |
| Mother | Ida Marie Carmen Aguado y MacDonnel |
Napoléon Louis Eugène Alexandre Anne Emmanuel de Talleyrand-Périgord (22 March 1867 – 26 September 1951), 8th Duke of Montmorency, was a French aristocrat and soldier.
He was born on 22 March 1867 in Paris, France. He was the only son of Nicolas Raoul Adalbert de Talleyrand-Périgord (1837–1915), Duke of Montmorency, and Ida Marie Carmen Aguado y MacDonnel (1847–1880). His mother died in Arcachon, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine in 1880.[1] His father was prominent at the Court of Napoleon III and was a member of the Union Artistique.[2]
His maternal grandparents were Alexandre Aguado, 2nd Marqués of las Marismas del Guadalquivir and Claire Emilie MacDonnel, a lady-in-waiting to Empress Eugénie.[3] His paternal grandparents were Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord and, his first wife, Anne Louise Charlotte de Montmorency.[4] Among his extended paternal family were Caroline Valentine de Talleyrand-Périgord (wife of Vicomte Charles Henri d'Etchegoyen), Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord, 4th Duke of Talleyrand-Périgord,[5] His great-aunt, Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord, married Henri de Castellane.[6] From his grandfather's second marriage to Rachel Elisabeth Pauline de Castellane (widow of Max von Hatzfeldt and daughter of Boniface de Castellane),[4] his aunt was Marie Dorothée Louise Valençay de Talleyrand-Périgord (wife of Karl Egon IV, the Prince of Furstenberg and Jean de Castellane).
Career
Upon the death of his father in 1915,[2] he became the Duke of Montmorency (third creation). The title had originally been created in 1688 as the Duke of Beaufort (second creation) but was changed to Duke of Montmorency in 1689. Before he succeeded to the title, he was known as the Count of Périgord.[7]
In 1917, he was a Captain on the General Staff of the French Army.[7] He was an honorary member of the Society of the Cincinnati, the fraternal, hereditary society founded in 1783 to commemorate the American Revolutionary War for descendants of military officers who served in the Continental Army.[8]
