GRAMONT DUCS.
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| Antoine VII de Gramont Duke of Gramont @ Geneanet |
(1722-1801)
7th Duc de Gramont
1745
Duc de Lesparre
1739
Souverain de Bidache
Son of: Louis de Gramont, 6th Duc de Gramont & Genevieve de Gontaut-Biron.
Husband of:
1. Marie-Louise de Gramont (1723-1756), daughter of Antoine VI de Gramont & Louise-Francoise d'Aumont.
2. Beatrix de Choiseul-Beaupre (1730-1794), mar 1759, daughter of Francois-Joseph II de Choiseul-Beaupre& Francois-Louise de Bassompierre.
3. Marie-Henriette du Merle (1768-1812), mar 1794, daughter of Charles-Gabriel du Merle & Guillaume-Francoise-Gerardine Gascard-Duminy.
His lover was:
Madeleine-Josephe Fauconnier (d.1784)
Natural offspring
1. Cecile de Gramont (1750-1828).
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| Antoine X de Gramont 10th Duke of Gramont |
1855-1880
10th Duc de Guiche
Prince de Bidache.
Son of: Antoine IX de Gramont, 9th Duc de Gramont & Ida d'Orsay.
Husband of: Emma Mary Mackinnon (1811-1891), daughter of William Alexander Mackinnon, 33rd Chief of the Scottish Clan Fingon (Mackinnon), mar 1848.
His lovers were:
1) Esther Lachmann (1819-1884)
Lover in 1848.
2) Hilda Arnold
French courtesan & mistress.
" . . . No sooner was she established at rue d'Antin than a new beau appeared on the scene, the Duc de Guiche. Of course 'le tout Paris', notably the young men of the Jockey Club, knew that she and Montguyon had parted company, and that therefore the field was wide open for a successor. x x x Guiche was a dashing young artillery officer, the scion of a grand aristocratic family, and naturally a member of the Jocky Club. He was reputedly the most handsome man in Paris, hence his nickname 'Antinous', after the legendary youth who had been the lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. 'Antinous' (synonymous with 'pretty lover boy') punned on his real name, which was Antoine X Alfred Agenor de Gramont, Duc de Guiche, eventually Duc de Gramont. (: 106)
". . . The nineteen-year-old Antoine Agenor, Duc de Guiche, had just resigned from the army. Possessing a fortune and determined to be the reigning dandy and the greatest authority on all the beautiful women of his time, he carried Marie off, gave her an apartment, set beside her in triumph in his box at the Opera, and set about giving her an education. . . . " ( The Great Garbo: 243)
"It did not take long for Marie Duplessis — Alphonsine selected the nom de guerre because 'Marie' was 'the name of the Virgin' and because the particule 'du' implied patrician birth — to trade her first benefactor for a slew of grand aristocrats. Notable among these was Agénor de Guiche, the dashing scion of an august ducal family. In addition to buying Marie magnificent clothing, jewels and horses (not to mention the camellias that became her trademark accessory), he arranged for her to receive daily instruction in French, drawing, music and dance. This training imbued the once impoverished waif from Normandy with an air of distinction and refinement that would make her, as Liszt later observed, 'unique of her kind.'" (NYT)
"She started off being a mistress of students, and then she met a very well-known young man called the Duc de Guiche, and it was through the Duc de Guiche that she started learning how to dress, almost like an aristocrat. And there were sort of two or three restaurants and cafés on the boulevard — the Maison Dorée and the Café Riche and the Café de Paris — and they were almost like a sort of private club. And you would get Nestor Roqueplan, who was the editor of the Figaro, and [Louis-Désiré] Véron, who was the director of the Paris Opera, and they would have a table, and they would obviously have sort of intellectual friends, and they would invite one or two decorative courtesans; and Marie became one of them." (NPR Books)
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| Rachel Felix |
4) Rachel Felix.
Effects on Lovers' Family, Other People and Society: ". . . The Duc de Gramont, father of the young Duc de Guiche, disliked her [Marie Duplessis] and feared that she would ruin his son. Antoine Agenor was therefore sent on a grand tour of Italy, and Marie Duplessis became the mistress of the aging Comte de Stackelberg, a former Ambassador. . . . " (Payne, 2002, p.243)[Ref1:ladyreading.forumree.it]
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(1835-1865)
9th Duc de Caderousse
1854-1865
"Ludovic, Duc de Grammont-Caderousse, who succeeded to the title on the death o fhis brother, lost in the Arctic in 1854, died here yesterday, at the early age of 31. He was well known in the sporting circles of Paris, and as 'Le Roi des Viveurs' was a celebrity of the clubs and the Turf of France. He leaves many friends. . . The Duke has left all the remainder of his fortune---still, I hear, quite worth paying a legacy duty fir---to his doctor, excepting 50,000 francs to an 'individual.' The title is extinct with this last Caderousse." (Court and Social Life on France Under Napoleon the Third, Volume 1: 114)
Wealthy & wild.
"The Duke was, like many of the wealthy Paris society gentlemen of the age, a bit of a wild party boy. He had a love of betting and dares and had gotten into a duel with a man over some unsporting remarks about horse racing. He is a slightly enigmatic figure, now overshadowed by his famous mistress, but what little can be unearthed is both amusing and slightly provocative, providing a strange snapshot of the Parisian world of the 1860s." (The Pragmatic Costumer)
The perfect type of the pleasure-loving boulevardiers.
"Amongst the male frequenters of the Grand Seize no one was more celebrated on the Boulevards than the famous young viveur, the Duc de Gramont-Caderousse. This young man may be said to have been the foremost representative of the jeunesse doree of the Second Empire, the perfect type of the pleasure-loving boulevardiers, who constituted what Hortense Schneider, in the days of her triumph as the Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein, called 'my house.' Insatiable in the pursuit of costly pleasure, the young Duc committed all the follies to which a wealthy young Frenchmen are occasionally prone. A warm admirer of the fair sex, he showed money and presents upon the demi-monde. To a girl who had been casually asked to a supper-party he once gave 5,000 francs, merely because she had sung some ditty which had amused him. This, however, was nothing to the sums which he expended upon the fashionable courtesans. To one of these damsels he once presented as an Easter offering an enormous ornamental egg. This was, in reality, merely a coffer of ovoid form, covered with blue velvet, and powdered with hearts transfixed by arrows in gold embroidery. On being opened it disclosed a charming victoria of Binder's building, a pair of perfectly matched piebald ponies, and a small groom in faultless tunic, tops, and buckskins. The whose turn-out was ready for immediate use, and the famous cocotte who received it drove her piebald pair in the Bois that very afternoon. Extravagant to the utmost limits of folly, the young Duc got into debt with such marvellous ease that before he was twenty-one his guardians, making up their minds to get him out of Paris as soon as possible, sent him to London as Attache. Owing to his devotion to the Turf and the gaming-table, his debts just before his majority amounted to 1,000,000 francs; and his relations had recourse to the conseil judiciaire, which in France has saved many young men from utter ruin." (The Man of Pleasure: 229)
Physical Traits & Personal Qualities: "He was about thirty-eight when he was introduced to Madame Recamier; his handsome and noble face still bore the trace of the sorrows and struggles which had convulsed his mind. He was tall and fair, and when he became bald, which he did at an early age, his beautiful hair formed a sort of aureole around his fine and regular head. . . ."
His lovers were:
Duchesse de Persigny
". . . She was the mistress of the Duc de Gramont-Caderousse, a roue much frowned upon by his prominent family. . . . " (Gaslight and Shadow: 18)
"The most notorious of Mme. de Persigny's 'inconsequences' was her liaison with Ludovic de Gramont, Duc de Caderousse, whose name is the only representative of the period so celebrated in music by Jacques Offenbach. Caderousse, who died Sept. 23, 1865, at the age of thirty, worn out by a life of dissipation, was the son of an eccentric father who spent 50,000 francs in walking sticks, whips and crops, and 20,000 francs on hats, but who was able, in spite of these peculiarities, to leave his son, who survived him, an income of 200,000 francs. And he spent them right royally, and killed M. Dillon, October 22, 1862, for having written a little article not at all spiteful, the tone of which had displeased him. He was a great gambler and society man, and at his death there was found in his library a domino, a Breton costume, a pierrot costume, a costume of the time of Louis XIII, and a costume of the period of Henri IV, and people said, rather wittily, that 'M. de Grammont-Caderousse read but little.' . . ." (Napoleon III and the Women He Loved: 259)
2) Cora Pearl.
Lover in 1865
Lover in 1858?.
" . . . His liaison with Mlle. Hortense Schneider, the daring Grand-Duchesse of Gerolstein, was quite famous. As a wit, they said she fell under the Gramont law. As a beauty, she could not be appreciated by those who preferred fair women. M. de Caderousse took her openly to the theatres, where it pleased him to caress her in his box, and to his estate of Caderousse, where with much ceremony she was sponsor to the bells he presented to the church; to the boulevards, where he gave a lad twenty francs for calling out, 'Oh! what a beauty!' when she saw Mlle. Schneider. These slight words give an idea of the person. . . ." (Napoleon III and the Women He Loved: 260)
"She had been introduced to Offenbach by one of the company's gentleman singers, with whom she was having an affair. She soon set her beau aside to make way for admirers of loftier status -- for example, the Duc de Gramont-Caderousse, a bohemian dandy who was smitten when he saw her in L'amour de Psyche, a revue of the Bouffes-Parisiens presented at the end of 1856. In 1858 she bore a son. The official documents described the child as 'of an unnamed father,' though Gramont-Caderousse seemed the logical candidate. She sent the child off to be raised by her family in Bordeaux but soon felt drawn to join him there and devote herself to motherhood. Offenbach sent about trying to lure her back, and he finally succeeded in 1864 by dangling a spectacular role, the lead in his new operetta La belle Helene, a comedy based on Greek mythology. The critic of Le Figaro found that 'Mademoiselle Schneider makes men dream like school boys and flings out her words much as one would give a kiss.'" (Pasatiempo)
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