Alain de Rohan-Chabot


Alain Charles Louis de Rohan-Chabot, Prince of Léon, 11th Duke of Rohan, deputy of Morbihan.

Early life

Rohan-Chabot was born on 1 December 1844 in Paris. He was the son of Charles Louis Josselin de Rohan-Chabot, 10th Duke of Rohan, and Octavie Rouillé de Boissy. His sister, Marie-Joséphine de Rohan-Chabot, was the wife of Odet de Montault, Viscount of Montault, and, after his death, Count Arthur de Rougé.
His paternal grandparents were Anne-Louis Fernand de Rohan-Chabot, 9th Duke of Rohan, Peer of France, Maréchal de camp, aide de camp of the Duke of Berry, Squire of the Duke of Bordeaux, and the former Joséphine Françoise de Gontaut-Biron de Saint-Blancard. His maternal grandparents were Hilaire-Etienne-Octave Rouillé, Marquis of Boissy, and Amélie-Charlotte-Julie de Musnier de Folleville.

Career

The Prince of Léon was a Royalist Deputy to the National Assembly for the Ploermell division of Morbihan and a member of the Departmental council.
Upon his father's death in 1893, he became the 11th Duke of Rohan.

Personal life

On 26 June 1872, he married Herminie de [La Brousse de Verteillac|Marie Marguerite Henriette Antoinette Amable Herminie de La Brousse de Verteillac], poetess, daughter of Charles César Augustin de La Brousse de Verteillac, Baron de La Tour Blanche, and his second wife, Marie Henriette de Leuze. She was also a granddaughter of François Gabriel Thibault de La Brousse, Marquis de Verteillac. Together, they were the parents of five children:
They lived at the Hôtel de Verteillac, 35 boulevard des Invalides in Paris, the Château de Josselin in Morbihan, and the Chalet des Fées in Pontaillac, built by his wife's father, the Marquis de Verteillac, on the Défé estate he had acquired in 1865.
The Duke died in Paris on 6 June 1914. His widow died in the 7th [arrondissement of Paris] in 1926.