Emmanuel de Crussol d'Uzès

Amable Antoine Jacques Emmanuel de Crussol, 12th Duke of Uzès (18 January 1840 – 28 November 1878), known as the Duke of Crussol from 1843 to 1872, was a French soldier and politician.

Early life He was born in Paris on 18 January 1840 as the son of Géraud de Crussol, 11th Duke of Uzès (1808–1872), and Françoise de Talhouët-Roy (1818–1863). His elder sister, Laure, married Joseph Philippe Léopold Vogt, Viscount of Hunolstein. His younger siblings were Frédéric Jacques, who died accidentally while attending the École navale; Élisabeth Olive Emmanuelle, who married the Marquis Louis Marie Hector de Galard de Béarn; and Mathilde, who died unmarried.

Personal life

On 5 December 1866, he lost an eye during a hunting accident, when he was accidentally shot by his brother-in-law, Viscount of Hunolstein.

On 10 May 1867, he married Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1847–1933) in Paris. The daughter of Louis de Rochechouart, Count of Mortemart, and Marie Clémentine de Chevigné,

Together, they had four children:

Jacques Marie Géraud de Crussol (1868–1893), who died during an expedition he was leading in Africa; he died unmarried without issue. Simone Louise Laure de Crussol (1870–1946), who married Honoré d'Albert de Luynes, 10th Duke of Luynes and Chevreuse, son of Charles d'Albert, 9th Duke of Luynes and Yolande de La Rochefoucauld, in 1889. Louis Emmanuel de Crussol (1871–1943), who married Thérèse d'Albert de Luynes, a first cousin of Simone's husband, who was the only daughter of Princess Sophie Galitzine, and Paul d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chaulnes and Picquigny, in 1894. They divorced in 1938 and he married an American, Josephine Angela in 1939. Mathilde Renée de Crussol (1875–1908), who married François de Cossé, 11th Duke of Brissac, a grandson of Louis Say (founder of the Say sugar empire) in 1894.

The Duke died in Paris on 28 November 1878 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Jacques. His widow died in 1933.

Residences The Duke inherited, and acquired, a number of properties in France, including the Hôtel de Vaudreuil in the 7th arrondissement of Paris at 7 Rue de la Chaise. In 1870, he acquired, at auction, the Château de La Celle in La Celle-les-Bordes. Upon his father's death in 1872, he inherited the Château de Bonnelles in Bonnelles, where he had founded the famous "Rallye-Bonnelles", a hunting team in the Rambouillet forest, in 1871. In 1873, he had the Château de Villette built in Ménestreau-en-Villette.