Marie de Rohan-Chabot Chambrun (1876–1951)

Marie de Rohan-Chabot, later de Chambrun, was a daughter of the French politician Alain-Charles-Louis de Rohan-Chabot, 11e duc de Rohan, and his wife Herminie, duchesse de Rohan (née de La Brousse de Verteillac), a poet. In 1897, she married prince Lucien Charles Murat, a scion of the exiled Bonapartist family, with whom she had a son. After Murat's death, she married Charles Pineton de Chambrun, comte de Chambrun, a diplomat and writer. She became a portrait and landscape painter, galleriste, and the author of numerous novels and biographies, including (as Princesse Lucien Murat) La Vie amoureuse de la Grande Catherine, 1927; Raspoutine et l'aube sanglante; La Fayette; Les Errants de la Gloire, 1933; and La Reine Christine de Suède, 1934. Under the name Marie de Chambrun, she published Le Roi de Rome, 1941. See her lovely portrait by Blanche Jacques-Emile, painted in 1907.