Adolphe de Chambrun

Charles-Adolphe Pineton de Chambrun, Marquis of Chambrun (10 August 1831 – 13 September 1891) was a French historian, jurist and non-fiction writer.

Early life
Adolphe de Chambrun was born on 10 August 1831, in Marvejols, Lozère, France. He was the son of Marie Simone Victorine Virginie de Framond de La Framondie (b. c. 1800) and Count Louis-Charles Pineton de Chambrun (1774–1860), émigré of the Army of Condé, colonel of cavalry, deputy of Lozère.

He was a first cousin of Joseph Dominique Aldebert de Chambrun, a prefect, deputy of Lozère, and senator, and Charles de Chambrun, a member of the Chamber of Deputies.

Career
De Chambrun was an historian and a jurist. He served as a legal attache at the Embassy of France, Washington, D.C.

De Chambrun was the author of several books on the United States.

Personal life and death
On 8 June 1859 at the Église de la Madeleine in Paris, de Chambrun married Marie Henriette Hélène Marthe Tircuy de Corcelle, a daughter of Francisque de Corcelle and granddaughter of Marie Antoinette Virginie du Motier de La Fayette (daughter of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette). In New York, they resided on West 23rd Street in Chelsea, Manhattan. Together, they had one daughter and three sons:


 * Marie-Thérèse Virginie Françoise Pineton de Chambrun (1860–1948), who married explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza.
 * Pierre Pineton de Chambrun (1865–1954), who married Margaret Rives Nichols, daughter of George Ward Nichols and Maria Longworth, in 1895.
 * Aldebert Pineton de Chambrun (1872–1962), who married Clara Eleanor Longworth, sister of Nicholas Longworth (who married Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt), in 1901.
 * Charles Pineton de Chambrun (1875–1952), who married Marie de Rohan-Chabot, widow of Prince Lucien Murat and daughter of Alain de Rohan-Chabot, Duke of Rohan, and his wife Herminie, Duchess of Rohan (née de La Brousse de Verteillac) in 1934.

De Chambrun died in 1891 in New York City.