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Charles de Chambrun (1875-1952)
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, 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 VaticanHoly See
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, 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), 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
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, Maurice Garcon
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, Marcel Pagnol
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, Jules Romains
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and Henri Mondor
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he was one of six people elected on the 4 April 1946 to the Académie française
Académie française
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in the second group election to fill the numerous empty seats caused by the lack of elections during the German occupation of France.
Works
Charles de Chambrun- Lettres à Marie, Pétersbourg-Pétrograd, 1914–1918 (1941)
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nouvelle (1939) - À l'école d'un diplomate : VergennesVergennesVergennes can refer to:People* Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes , French statesman and diplomat who directed his country during the American War of IndependencePlaces* Vergennes, Illinois* Vergennes, Vermont...
(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