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French politician and diplomat From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Jean Marie Félix, Marquis de La Valette (25 November 1806 – 2 May 1881) was a French politician and diplomat.[1]
Charles de La Valette | |
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French Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
In office 1869–1870 | |
Preceded by | Henri, Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais |
Succeeded by | Philippe de Rohan-Chabot |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 17 December 1868 – 17 July 1869 | |
Preceded by | Lionel de Moustier |
Succeeded by | Henri, Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais |
In office 1 September 1866 – 2 October 1866 | |
Preceded by | Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys |
Succeeded by | Lionel de Moustier |
Minister of the Interior | |
In office 28 March 1865 – 13 November 1867 | |
Preceded by | Paul Boudet |
Succeeded by | Ernest Pinard |
Personal details | |
Born | Charles Jean Marie Félix de La Valette 25 November 1806 Senlis, Oise, France |
Died | 2 May 1881 74) Paris, France | (aged
Spouses | Maria Garrow Birkett
(m. 1828; died 1831)Adeline Fowle Welles
(m. 1842; died 1869)Georgiana-Gabrielle de Flahaut
(m. 1871) |
Charles de La Valette was Minister of the Interior and of Foreign Affairs in the government of Emperor Napoleon III.[1]
He was French Ambassador to Constantinople from 1851-53, before the Crimean War, then served as a government minister, before a posting to the Vatican (an ancestral family member Jean Parisot de Valette had been Grand Master of the Order of Malta).[2]
An Anglophile, he finally returned to London in an official capacity as French Ambassador from 1869 to 1870.[1]
The Marquis married firstly Maria Garrow Birkett at London in 1828. Maria, a daughter of the late Daniel Birkett, Esq., of Isleworth, died in 1831, aged 24.[3]
In 1842, he married secondly to Adeline Fowle Welles (1799–1869), the widow of a Boston banker Samuel Welles, who died in 1841.[2] After twenty-seven years of marriage,[2] Adeline died in 1869.[4]
He married thirdly, in 1871, Georgiana Gabrielle de Flahaut, third daughter of Charles, Comte de Flahaut and Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, and an younger sister of Emily Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne.[5]
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