Napoléon Louis Eugène Alexandre Anne Emmanuel de Talleyrand-Périgord (22 March 1867 – 26 September 1951), 8th Duke of Montmorency, was a French aristocrat and soldier.
Upon the death of his father in 1915,[2] he became the Duke of Montmorency (third creation). The title had originally been created in 1688 as the Duke of Beaufort (second creation) but was changed to Duke of Montmorency in 1689. Before he succeeded to the title, he was known as the Count of Périgord.[7]
After the death of his first wife, he married wealthy American heiress Cécile (née Ulman) Blumenthal (1863–1927) on 14 November 1917 at the Church of Saint-Pierre-du-Gros-Caillou in Paris.[17] She was escorted down the aisle by U.S. AmbassadorWilliam G. Sharp.[17] The widow of New York leather merchant Ferdinand Blumenthal, Cécile lived at 34 Avenue du Bois de Boulogne in the 16th arrondissement of Paris before their marriage, later known as the Hôtel Blumenthal-Montmorency (designed by French architect Henri Paul Nénot).[7] From her marriage to Blumenthal, she had two sons, Joseph Ferdinand William Blumenthal, a diplomat, and Cecil Charles Blumenthal.[18][a] Her sister, Blanche Ulman, was the wife of diplomat, and later Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, Milenko Radomar Vesnić.[7] Upon her death in Paris on 9 April 1927,[22] her entire American estate was inherited by her two sons from her first marriage. He did, however, inherit from her French estate.[18] Shortly after her death, the Hôtel Blumenthal-Montmorency was sold for 8-million francs to Simón Iturri Patiño who gave it to his daughter Graziella.[23]
Third marriage
After her death, he married Gabrielle-Ida (née Lefaivre) Grandjean (1896–1985) on 21 February 1950. The widow of industrialist Armand-Augustin-Georges Grandjean, she was a daughter of the French diplomat Alexis-Jules Lefaivre, Minister Plenipotentiary, and Isabelle de Lagotellerie, she had been born in Valparaíso, Chile.[24] where her father was stationed.[25]
The Duke died in Paris on 26 September 1951 at which time the dukedom of Montmorency became extinct. His widow died in 1985.[26]
Notes
^Cecil Blumenthal (c. 1884–1965), who changed his surname to Blunt after Cécile married the Duke of Montmorency,[19] was vice president of the F. Blumenthal Company.[20] Upon his 1919 marriage to Donna Anna Letitia Pecci, only daughter of Count and Countess Camillo Pecci of Rome,[18] Cecil was made a Count as a wedding present from Pope Benedict XV (in memory of Anna's great-uncle, Pope Leo XIII), and double-barrelled his surname to Pecci-Blunt.[21]
^"Talleyrand Dead. Wed Anna Gould. Duke Was Known as Prince of Sagan at Time of Courtship in First of Century". New York Times. October 27, 1937. Retrieved 2011-11-18. Marie Pierre Camille Louis Helie de Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince of Sagan and fifth Duke of Talleyrand, was a principal in one of the international marriage of the first decade of this century. He married Anna Gould, heir to more than $80,000,000 of the fortune of her father, the late Jay Gould, after she had divorced his cousin, Count Boni de Castellane. ...
