Jean de Castellane

Count

Jean de Castellane
Jean de Castellane
Born(1868-04-24)24 April 1868
Paris, France
Died13 September 1965(1965-09-13) (aged 97)
Paris, France
Noble familyCastellane
Spouse
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(m. 1898; died 1948)​
FatherAntoine de Castellane
MotherMadeleine Le Clerc de Juigné

Count Jean Marie Henri Marc Arnoult de Castellane (24 April 1868 – 13 September 1965) was a French politician and member of the house of Castellane. In 1898 he married Dorothée de Talleyrand-Périgord.

Early life

He was born in Paris on 24 April 1868. He was the second son of Antoine de Castellane and Madeleine Le Clerc de Juigné. Among his three siblings were Boniface (who married American railroad heiress Anna Gould, the daughter of Jay Gould), and Stanislas de Castellane ( who married Natalia Terry y Sanchez, sister of architect Emilio Terry).

His paternal grandparents were Henri de Castellane, deputy for Cantal, and the former Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord. His aunt, Marie de Castellane, was married to Prince Antoine Radziwiłł, a grandson of Prince Antoni Radziwiłł and Princess Louise of Prussia.

Career

He initially served as a cavalry officer but left the army in 1902 to stand in the legislative elections in Cantal. He was elected, but disqualified for bribery and beaten in the by-election that followed. He was a municipal counsellor in Paris from 1919 to 1944 and was vice-president of the municipal council in 1928, and then president from 1930 to 1931. He was also general counsellor for Seine.

He also served as president of the French Swimming Federation. He served as a referee in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.

Personal life

Portrait of his wife, Dorothée, by Philip de László, 1905

In 1898, he married his cousin, Dorothée de Talleyrand-Périgord (1862–1948). The widow of Charles Egon IV, Prince of Fürstenberg, she was the youngest daughter of Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duke of Valençay, of Talleyrand, and of Dino, and the Countess Hatzfeldt (widow of Maximilian von Hatzfeldt, née Rachel Elisabeth Pauline de Castellane).

He died in Paris on 13 September 1965.

References

  1. ↑ "COUNT CASTELLANE'S LINEAGE. His Ancestors Date from the Crusades and His Father Is Wealthy" (PDF). The New York Times. 9 February 1895. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  2. ↑ "Died". Time magazine. 8 December 1961. Archived from the original on 4 February 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2007. Anna Gould, Duchess of Talleyrand, 83, daughter of Rail Tycoon Jay Gould and one of the first of the American heiresses whose marriages infused new blood—and new money—into Europe's sagging aristocracy; of a heart attack; in Paris. Wed to Count Boniface de Castellane in 1895, Anna Gould divorced him after an 11-year phantasmagoria of pink marble palaces and $150,000 parties during which the Parisian gay blade skated through more than half of her $13.5 million inheritance. Two years later, she wed the fifth Duke of Talleyrand, a descendant of the wily French diplomatist whose machinations shaped post-Napoleonic Europe, lived with him for 29 years until his death in 1937.
  3. ↑ "Duchesse de Talleyrand Is Dead. Youngest daughter of Jay Gould". The New York Times. 30 November 1961. Retrieved 6 August 2008. The Duchesse de Talleyrand-Périgord, daughter of the late Jay Gould, American railroad financier, died today in Paris where she passed most of her life.
  4. ↑ "Stanislas Castellane (1875-1959) - Auteur - Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France". data.bnf.fr (in French). Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  5. ↑ Ringrose, Hyacinthe (1910). The International Who's who: Who's who in the World, Incorporated with the International Blue Book (in French). International Who's Who Publishing Company. p. 537.
  6. ↑ Radziwill (Fürstin), Marie Dorothea Elisabeth de Castellane; Robilant, Mario Antonio Nicolis di (1934). Lettres de la princesse Radziwill au général de Robilant, 1889-1914: 1908-1914 (in French). N. Zanichelli. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  7. ↑ (in French) " Jean de Castellane ", dans le Dictionnaire des parlementaires français (1889–1940), sous la direction de Jean Jolly, PUF, 1960.
  8. ↑ "Olympedia – Jean de Castellane". www.olympedia.org. Olympedia. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  9. ↑ de Massue de Ruvigny Ruvigny and Raineval (9th marquis of), Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de La Caillemotte (1914). The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who", of the Sovereigns, Princes and Nobles of Europe. Harrison & Sons. p. 462.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ Dino (duchesse de), Dorothée (1909). Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino: 1831-1835. W. Heinemann. p. 346. Retrieved 22 August 2017.