Count Jean de Castellane | |
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Born | Paris, France | 24 April 1868
Died | 13 September 1965 Paris, France | (aged 97)
Noble family | Castellane |
Spouse(s) | |
Father | Antoine de Castellane |
Mother | Madeleine 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.
He was born in Paris on 24 April 1868. He was the second son of Antoine de Castellane and Madeleine Le Clerc de Juigné.[1] Among his three siblings were Boniface (who married American railroad heiress Anna Gould, the daughter of Jay Gould),[2][3] and Stanislas de Castellane ( who married Natalia Terry y Sanchez, sister of architect Emilio Terry).[4]
His paternal grandparents were Henri de Castellane, deputy for Cantal, and the former Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord.[5] His aunt, Marie de Castellane, was married to Prince Antoine Radziwiłł, a grandson of Prince Antoni Radziwiłł and Princess Louise of Prussia.[6]
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 from 1930 to 1931. He was also general counsellor for Seine.
He also served as president of the French Swimming Federation.[7] He served as a referee in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.[8]
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,[9] and the Countess Hatzfeldt (widow of Maximilian von Hatzfeldt, née Rachel Elisabeth Pauline de Castellane).[10]
He died in Paris on 13 September 1965.