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Adolphe de Chambrun

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Charles-Adolphe Pineton de Chambrun, Marquis of Chambrun (1831 to 1891), was a French historian, jurist and non-fiction writer, born at Marvejols in Lozère. His father was Count Louis-Charles Pineton de Chambrun, a cavalry colonel and deputy of Lozère, and he was a first cousin of the prefect, deputy and senator Joseph Dominique Aldebert de Chambrun. He served as a legal attache at the Embassy of France in Washington, D.C., and wrote several books on the United States, besides an 1857 essay on parliamentary government in France. In 1859 he married a granddaughter of Marie Antoinette Virginie du Motier de La Fayette, daughter of the Marquis de Lafayette, and he died in New York City in 1891.

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was a French historian, jurist and non-fiction writer
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1. Adolphe de Chambrun (Wikipedia)
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    10 August 1831
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    was a French historian, jurist and non-fiction writer
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    He was the son of Marie Simone
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JuriGlobe World Legal Systems Research Group, University of OttawaIn Legal System: Civil Law, Alphabetical list, France
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