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Charles, Marquis de La Valette

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Charles de La Valette
French Ambassador to the United Kingdom
In office
1869–1870
Preceded byHenri, Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais
Succeeded byPhilippe de Rohan-Chabot
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
17 December 1868 – 17 July 1869
Preceded byLionel de Moustier
Succeeded byHenri, Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais
In office
1 September 1866 – 2 October 1866
Preceded byÉdouard Drouyn de Lhuys
Succeeded byLionel de Moustier
Minister of the Interior
In office
28 March 1865 – 13 November 1867
Preceded byPaul Boudet
Succeeded byErnest Pinard
Personal details
Born
Charles Jean Marie Félix de La Valette

(1806-11-25)25 November 1806
Senlis, Oise, France
Died2 May 1881(1881-05-02) (aged 74)
Paris, France
Spouses
Maria Garrow Birkett
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(m. 1828; died 1831)​
Adeline Fowle Welles
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(m. 1842; died 1869)​
Georgiana-Gabrielle de Flahaut
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(m. 1871)​

Charles Jean Marie Félix, Marquis de La Valette (25 November 1806 – 2 May 1881) was a French politician and diplomat.[1]

Career

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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]

Personal life

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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]

Honours

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c A.Robert et G.Cougny. "Charles, Jean, Marie, Félix LA VALETTE (1806 - 1881)" (in French). National Assembly (France), excerpted from the Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1789 à 1889. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "Bust of la Marquise de la Valette | Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste". collections.vam.ac.uk. Victoria and Albert Museum. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  3. ^ "The Gentleman's Magazine". E. Cave. 1828: 80. Retrieved 13 March 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ "Musée d'Orsay: Notice d'Oeuvre". www.musee-orsay.fr. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  5. ^ "The Illustrated London News". William Little. 1869: 389. Retrieved 13 March 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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Political offices
Preceded by Minister of the Interior
28 March 1865 – 13 November 1867 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Foreign Affairs
1 September 1866 – 2 October 1866 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Foreign Affairs
17 December 1868 – 17 July 1869 		Succeeded by


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