Victor de Broglie
Duke of Broglie
Louis-Alphonse-Victor, 5th duc de Broglie, called Victor de Broglie (30 October 1846 – 26 August 1906), was a French aristocrat. Victor de Broglie was born in Rome, Italy where his father, monarchist politician Albert, 4th duc de Broglie, held a diplomatic post. From 1860 to 1864, he studied at the Lycée Bonaparte, where he was a brilliant student and won the Concours Général several times. He took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 (1870-1871) as a lieutenant in the Eure mobile guard. In October 1870 he was at the Battle of Hécourt, and in January 1871 in the fighting in the Londe-Rouvray forest. In 1871, he was appointed embassy secretary in London, while his father was ambassador there. In May 1872, he became deputy chief of staff to Duke Decazes, then political editor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then in 1873-1874 chief of staff at the Ministry of Justice occupied by his father. Placed on leave after the crisis of 16 May 1877, he left the diplomatic service with the rank of 1st class embassy secretary. In the legislative elections of 1893, he was elected deputy for the constituency of Château-Gontier, in Mayenne, and was re-elected continuously until his death in 1906. From 1895 to 1906, he was also general councillor for the canton of Craon. After owning Château de Broglie in 1901, he moved to
Château de Saint-Amadour in La Selle-Craonnaise, a property belonging to his wife, where he was involved in farming and livestock breeding. He was also a member of the Société des Bibliophiles Français. On 26 September 1871, in Paris, he married Pauline de La Forest d'Armaillé (Paris, 22 December 1851 - Paris 8e, 26 June 1928), daughter of Count Louis de La Forest d'Armaillé, a member of the Institut, and Marie Célestine Amélie de Ségur, a writer. She is the granddaughter of Count Philippe-Paul de Ségur and his second wife, Célestine Gabrielle de Vintimille du Luc, herself a great-granddaughter of King Louis XV. With wife, Victor had four children who survived to adulthood, including two sons, Maurice and Louis, both of whom were physicists, and both of whom would hold the ducal title. Louis would win the Nobel Prize for Physics and go on to win other national and international honors over his long life. De Broglie acceded to the title of duc de Broglie on his father's death in 1901 but died only a few years later, passing the title to his eldest son, Maurice. Maurice died in 1960 and was succeeded by his brother Louis, who died in 1987. Maurice had no surviving children, while Louis died unmarried, and the title passed collaterally to Victor-François, a descendant of the 5th Duke's third younger brother.
The 1st Hussar Regiment (French: 1er Régiment de Hussards) is an cavalry unit in the French Army, founded in 1720 by Hungarian noble Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny. 1719 - 1720 : The Hussars of Bercheny are raised at Constantinople, following the demand of the Regent Philippe I, Duke of Orléans by Count of Bercheny. 1791 : Units of the French Army are named after their function of arms and numbered in terms of their seniority. The Regiment of Bercheny becomes accordingly the 1st Hussar Regiment. 29 floréal an IV ( 29 - floréal: meaning the second month of spring - an IV or year IV : end of 1795 and debut of 1796 in the Gregorian calendar) : The regiment received half of the cavalry of the 13th Hussar Regiment (French: 13e régiment de hussards). 1815 : The regiment is dissolved. 1816 : Creation of the 1st Hussar Regiment of Jura. 1824 : Redesignated as 1st Hussar Regiment of Chartres.
The House of Broglie (French: Maison de Broglie) is a distinguished French noble family, originally Piedmontese, who migrated to France in the year 1643. Broglia was the name of an old Piedmontese noble family, from which were descended the counts of Casalborgone, Mombello and Revello, and the lords of Arignano, Cortandone, Fontanetto Po, Chieri, Cocconato, Monale, Montaldo, Pont Canavese and Santena. The first reference to the name is dated 1245, mentioning one Ardizzone Broglia, father of Guglielmo, decurione of Chieri. The founder of the French de Broglie line was Francesco Maria, count of Revello, of the Broglia di Chieri family. Born in 1611 in Piedmont, he took service in the French army in the Thirty Years' War and was naturalized in France after 1643. He is now known as François-Marie, comte de Broglie. After distinguishing himself as a soldier, he died, a lieutenant-general, at the siege of Valenza on 2 July 1656. His son, Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie (1647–1727), served under Condé, Turenne and other great commanders of the age of Louis XIV. He became maréchal de camp in 1676, lieutenant-general in 1688, and finally marshal of France in 1724. His grandson, François-Marie, was made duc de Broglie and a peer of France in 1742. His great-grandson, Victor-François, 2nd duc
de Broglie, was created Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1759 by Emperor Francis I. All junior members of the House of Broglie bear the title of prince de Broglie, while the head of the family is the duc de Broglie. A junior line used the title of prince de Broglie-Revel, after one of its lordships. Louis, 7th duc de Broglie (1892–1987), a physicist and Nobel laureate, was one of the founders of quantum theory.
Awards: Insignia, sash and star of the Royal Military and Hospitaller Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem united.
