Baron Charles Gustave Martin de Chassiron (1818-1871) was a French diplomat of the 19th century. He travelled to China and Japan as one of the two Attachés of the French Embassy under Baron Gros

Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros

Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros was a French ambassador and one of the first daguerrotypists. Baron and French chargé d'affaires in Bogotá , Athens and Ambassador to London - during which period he also travelled to China and Japan in 1857 and 1858 — he produced many famous daguerrotypes — chief among...

, with the title of "Detaché extraordinaire en Chine et au Japon" from 1858 to 1860., together with Marquis Alfred de Moges

Alfred de Moges

Alfred, Marquis de Moges was a French diplomat of the 19th century. In 1858 he accompanied Charles de Chassiron and Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros to sign the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan in Edo on October 9, 1858.-Works:* Recollections of Baron Gros's Embassy to China and Japan...

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Chassiron wrote an account of his travels Notes sur le Japon, la Chine et l'Inde: 1858-1859-1860.

During his travels, Chassiron built a large collection of Japanese and Chinese artifacts which are displayed today at the Orbigny-Bernon Museum

Orbigny-Bernon Museum

The Orbigny-Bernon Museum is a history museum in the French city of La Rochelle.It was founded in 1917, and contains collections relating to the history of La Rochelle, as well as an important collection of porcelains of the city...

 in La Rochelle.

The Chassiron lighthouse at the northern tip of Ile d'Oléron was named after him.

He was the first husband of Princess Caroline Laetitia Murat (firstborn of Prince Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat

Prince Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat

Lucien Charles Joseph Napoléon, Prince Français, Prince of Naples, 2nd Prince de Pontecorvo, 3rd Prince Murat was a French politician, and the soevereign Prince of Pontecorvo between 1812 and May 1815....

, grandson of Caroline Bonaparte

Caroline Bonaparte

Maria Annunziata Carolina Murat , better known as Caroline Bonaparte, was the seventh surviving child and third surviving daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino and a younger sister of Napoleon I of France...

): the got married in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, 6 June 1850. They had a son, Guy Chassiron (1863-1932). After his death his widow remarried that same year with a wealthy Englishman, John Lewis Garden, and had two daughters from him.

Works

• Aperçu Pittoresque de la Régence de Tunis
• Notes sur le Japon, la Chine et l'Inde 1858-1859-1860 http://books.google.com/books?id=5jkQAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1#PPR3,M1