Emmanuel de Crussol d'Uzès, 15th Duke of Uzès

Emmanuel de Crussol, 15th Duke of Uzès (19 July 1927 – 8 September 1999) was a French aristocrat who worked in Morocco as a chemical engineer.

Early life Emmanuel was born in Paris on 19 July 1927 as heir to the dukedom of Uzès, the oldest and premier dukedom in France which had been created by King Charles IX in 1565. (The viscounty of Uzès became a duchy by letters patent of Charles IX issued at Mont-de-Marsan in May 1565.) The dukes were included in the peerage of France from 1572, and if the Kingdom of France existed today, they would rank immediately after the Princes of the Blood. He was the only son of Géraud François Marie Paul de Crussol d'Uzès (1897–1929), styled Duke of Crussol, and the former Evelyn Anne Gordon (1897–1947), who married in France in 1921.

His maternal grandparents were Scots-American millionaire John Gordon and Rosalie Georgina (née Murray) Gordon of New York and London. His maternal aunt was Vera Seton (née Gordon) Guthrie, Lady Swettenham, the second wife of Sir Frank Swettenham. His grandfather, who married the American Josephine Angela in 1939 after his divorce from Thérèse, was the second son of Emmanuel de Crussol, 12th Duke of Uzès and the former Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart (who inherited the Château de Boursault and a large fortune from her great-grandmother, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, the founder of the Veuve Clicquot). His grandfather's elder brother was the 13th Duke of Uzès (who died in 1893 during a colonial expedition in Africa), and his grandfather's two sisters both married Dukes, Simone to Honoré d'Albert, 10th Duke of Luynes, and Mathilde to François de Cossé Brissac, 11th Duke of Brissac.

As his father predeceased him, he inherited the dukedom upon his grandfather's death in 1943. and sister of producer David Brown, Carolyn had been educated at the Brearley School in New York and studied art at Columbia and Stanford University. Before the marriage was annulled in Paris in 1947, they were the parents of: in 1949. Doyle was a grandson of architect James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter Jr. and a grandnephew of Bishop Ernest M. Stires. Peggy, the only child of Standard Oil director Frederick Henry Bedford Jr., was divorced from the American textile executive Thomas M. Bancroft Jr. (with whom she had a daughter) in 1960, and widowed from the French Prince Charles, 3rd Duke d'Arenberg in 1967 (with who she had a son, Prince Pierre d'Arenberg, 4th Duke of Arenberg) .

While the Duke was in Morocco, Peggy died in a car crash while en route back to their home in Paris after attending a ball at the home of real estate developer Robert de Balkany near Rambouillet in 1977.

The Duke died on 8 September 1999 at Montpellier in Hérault, France. Upon his death, lacking a legitimate son, his cousin Louis de Crussol d'Uzès (the son of his uncle, Emmanuel, Marquis of Crussol), became the 16th Duke of Uzès.