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Pierre de Polignac (1895-1964)

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Pierre Marie Xavier Raphael Antoine Melchior de Polignac was born 24 October 1895 in Hennebont, Morbihan, Brittany, France to Conde de Polignac (1857-1936) and Susana De La Torre y Mier (1858-1913) and died 10 November 1964 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France of unspecified causes. He married Charlotte of Monaco (1898-1977) 20 March 1920 in Monaco, Monaco.

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Prince Pierre of Monaco, Duke of Valentinois was a promoter of art, music, and literature in Monaco and served as the head of the country's delegation to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and to the International Olympic Committee. He married into the ruling family of Monaco.

Ancestry

  • Great, great grandson of Marie Antoinette's favourite, Yolande de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac (1749-1793).[1]
  • First cousin twice removed of major-general Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac of the Confederate States of America,
  • Maternal nephew of the Mexican politician José Ignacio Mariano Santiago Joaquín Francisco de la Torre y Mier.


Background and early life

Royal Monogram of Prince Pierre of Monaco

Monogram of Prince Pierre

Born at the Château de Kerscamp, Hennebont, Morbihan, France, Pierre was the fourth son and youngest child of Count Maxence Melchior Edouard Marie Louis de Polignac (1857–1936) and his Mexican-born wife, Susana Mariana Estefanía Francisca de Paula del Corazón de Jesús de la Torre y Mier (1858–1913), whom he wed in Paris in 1881[2][3] and who was the elder sister of Ignacio de la Torre y Mier, son-in-law of Mexican President Porfirio Diaz. He was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Polignac, one of France's most renowned ducal families,[4] noble since at least the 12th century, duke in 1780, peer in 1817.[5]

A veteran of World War I, in France he had fraternized in artistic social circles, becoming a good friend of Marcel Proust and Jean Cocteau.[6]

Prince

He married civilly on 19 March and religiously on 20 March 1920, in Monaco, Princess Charlotte of Monaco, the illegitimate but adopted daughter of Louis II of Monaco (1870-1949) by Marie Juliette Louvet.[7] He changed his name and coat of arms to those borne by the House of Grimaldi by Monegasque ordinance issued on 18 March 1920, the day before his wedding.[7][8] He had become a subject of the Sovereign Prince of Monaco, also by Monegasque Sovereign Ordinance, on 29 February 1920.[7] From the date of the religious wedding the court of Monaco referred to him, jure uxoris, as Duke of Valentinois. That title had been conferred upon his wife as heiress presumptive on 20 May 1919.[7] His surname and arms were altered by ordinance shortly after he became a Monegasque citizen, to ensure that his dynastic issue would bear the surname of Grimaldi in compliance with Article I of Monaco's house law.[9] Pierre remained in succession to the French title Duke of Polignac, as do his legitimate male-line descendants.

Marriage and family

Prince Pierre and Princess Charlotte were judicially separated on 20 March 1930 at Paris, and in a case titled "Princesse héréditaire Grimaldi de Monaco c. Prince Pierre Grimaldi de Polignac" were divorced by ordinance of Prince Louis II on 18 February 1933. The divorce was confirmed by a Paris tribunal in December of that year.[7][10] One magazine story reported that "The union ended ... under circumstances which prompted the temperamental father-in-law to vow he would call out the Monégasque army if the prince ever set foot in the principality again."[11] The banishment from Monaco was lifted in April 1933, and Prince Pierre thereafter received an annuity of 500,000 francs a year.[12][13]

He and his wife had two children:[7]

Death

Prince Pierre died on 10 November 1964, of cancer, at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France.[14]



Children


Offspring of Pierre de Polignac and Charlotte of Monaco (1898-1977)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Antoinette of Monaco (1920-2011) 28 December 1920 Paris, Ile-de-France, France 18 March 2011 Monaco, Monaco Alexandre Athanase Marie Noghes (1916-1999)
Jean Charles Henri Rey (1914-1994)
John Brian Gilpin (1930-1983)
Rainier III of Monaco (1923-2005) 31 May 1923 Prince's Palace, Monaco, Monaco 6 April 2005 Prince's Palace, Monaco, Monaco Grace Kelly (1929-1982)



Siblings


See Also

  • Pierre de Polignac
  • De Polignac Family
  • De Polignac in Brittany

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Bibiliography

Honors

  •  France: Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour[15]
  •  Italy: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic[16]
  •  Monaco: Grand Officer of the Order of Saint-Charles[17]
  •  Sweden: Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star - 1923[18]

Original Citations

Life Magazine in 1947 described Prince Pierre as "a slender and graceful gallant who wears his coat cape-fashion across his shoulders. His manners are exquisite; his voice so cultivated as to be practically inaudible".[11]

References

  1. ^ "Prince Pierre de Monaco, duc de Valentinois' Family Tree". https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000003232532828. 
  2. ^ "Maxence, comte de Polignac". https://www.geni.com/people/Maxence-comte-de-Polignac/6000000000652549219. 
  3. ^ Mother's full name cited in Revue des questions héraldiques, archéologiques et historiques (Conseil héraldique de France, 1905), 48
  4. ^ Other (non-Peer) Duchies, accessed September 11, 2012
  5. ^ Almanach de Gotha 1944. Polignac: maison de Chalençon. Justus Perthes, 1944, pp. 84, 508.
  6. ^ Braude, Mark. 2016. Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle. Simon & Schuster. New York. pp. 136-137, 169-170,179-180, 184-188, 198-203, 209, 213-214. ISBN 978-1-4767-0969-7.
  7. ^ a b c d e f Velde, Francois. The Succession Crisis of 1918. Heraldica.org. Retrieved 19 June 2010.
  8. ^ Chiavassa, Henri (1964). The History of the Principality of Monaco as Seen Through its Postage Stamps. Monaco: Postage Stamp Issuing Office. https://books.google.com/books?id=9uNFAQAAIAAJ. 
  9. ^ Velde, Francois. Monaco: House Laws. Heraldica.org. Retrieved 19 June 2010
  10. ^ "Revue Critique de Droit International Privé", 1934, Volume 29, page 504
  11. ^ a b Charles J. V. Murphy, "The New Riviera", Life magazine, 10 November 1947, page 152
  12. ^ "Monaco Ruler in Accord". New York Times. 29 April 1933. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/04/29/105127472.pdf. 
  13. ^ "Monaco Disputed on Annuity Figure". New York Times. 11 April 1936. https://www.nytimes.com/1936/04/11/archives/monaco-disputed-on-annuity-figure-exsoninlaw-of-ruler-says-he-gets.html. 
  14. ^ "Prince Pierre, 69, of Monaco is Dead", The New York Times, 11 November 1964.
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  16. ^ Quirinale website
  17. ^ Sovereign Ordonnance n° 1.757 of 19 April 1958.
  18. ^ "Sveriges statskalender (1940), II, p. 75" (in sv). http://runeberg.org/statskal/1940bih/0075.html. 



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