François de Corbel-Corbeau de Vaulserre

François Michel Marie de Corbel-Corbeau de Vaulserre, 7th Marquis of Vaulserre (2 July 1892 – 5 February 1976) was a French aristocrat.

Early life

Vaulserre was born on 2 July 1892 in Hagondange, Lorraine, France into a Savoy family of ancient nobility. He was the son of Bruno Charles Armand Marie de Corbel-Corbeau de Vaulserre, 6th Marquis of Vaulserre (1853–1941) and Marie-Thérèse de Curel (1865–1949). His sisters were Marie-Aimée-Hélène de Corbel-Corbeau de Vaulserre (wife of Louis-Hugues-Charles de Klopstein) and Marthe de Corbel-Corbeau de Vaulserre (wife of Count Roger de Lancrau de Bréon).

His paternal grandparents were Marie Charles François de Corbel-Corbeau de Vaulserre, 4th Marquis of Vaulserre, and Hélène Françoise Louise de Thélusson. Through his paternal aunt, Berthe de Corbel-Corbeau de Vaulserre (the wife of Henri de Wendel, himself a son of Charles de Wendel and brother to Robert de Wendel), he was a first cousin of French industrialist and politician François de Wendel. His maternal grandparents were Robert Ernest de Curel and Marie Anne Mélanie Arson. She was the eldest daughter of Honoré d'Albert de Luynes, 10th Duke of Luynes, and Simone Louise Laure de Crussol d'Uzes (a daughter of Emmanuel de Crussol, 12th Duke of Uzès and Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, who inherited a large fortune from her great-grandmother, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, founder of Veuve Clicquot). In Paris they lived at 32 rue de la Bienfaisance. The divorced on 31 January 1940.

They divorced and on 25 May 1943, he married Jeanne Marguerite Marie Josèphe Delphine Théodule de Sabran-Pontèves (1909–1979) in Paris. She was a daughter of Count Elzéar de Saban-Pontevès and Constance de Croÿ.