Edouard de La Rochefoucauld, 4th Duke of Bisaccia

Count Édouard François Marie de La Rochefoucauld (4 February 1874 – 9 February 1968), 3rd Duke of Bisaccia, was a French aristocrat and landowner.

Early life

La Rochefoucauld was born on 4 February 1874 at the Hôtel de La Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville at 47 Rue de Varenne in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. His maternal grandparents were the Belgian Ambassador to France, Eugène, 8th Prince of Ligne, and, his third wife, Princess Jadwiga Lubomirska (a daughter of Ukrainian Prince Henryk Ludwik Lubomirski).

From his father, he also inherited the Château d'Esclimont in Saint-Symphorien-le-Château, Eure-et-Loir, which his father, Sosthènes I, had inherited through his 1779 marriage into the Montmorency-Laval family.

Personal life On 19 June 1901, Rochefoucauld married Camille de Colbert-Chabanais (1883–1969), a daughter of Édouard de Colbert, 3rd Baron de Colbert, Marquis de Chabannais (a grandson of Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais), and Françoise Marie Auguste de Berckheim (daughter of Baron ). Together, they were the parents of:

Marie-Carmen Élisabeth Françoise Gabrielle de la Rochefoucauld (1902–1999), who married Count Louis Gabriel Raoul de Mailly-Nesle in 1928. Count Stanislas Édouard François Marie de La Rochefoucauld (1903–1965), who married Romanian-born French actress Alice Cocéa, the sister of socialist journalist and novelist N. D. Cocea, in 1926. They divorced in 1931, and he married married Princess Jeanne of Sanfelice de Viggiano, a daughter of Don Luigi Sanfelice, Prince of Viggiano, Marquess of Monteforte, and Princess Jeanne de Bauffremont-Courtenay (a daughter of Prince Paul de Bauffremont and Countess Valentine de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay), in 1947. Upon his death, the Château d'Esclimont passed to his eldest daughter Marie-Carmen, Countess of Mailly-Nesle. who sold the Château d'Esclimont in 1981 to René Traversac, president of the luxury hotel group "Les Grandes Étapes Françaises". Traversac's son, Pierre Traversac, sold the estate for €35 million in January 2015.

Through his daughter Élisabeth, he was a grandfather of Roland du Luart, Marquis du Luart (b. 1940), a former member of the Senate of France, who has been president of the Jockey-Club de Paris since 2014 (like Édouard's father and brother, Armand).