Pierre de Cossé Brissac

Pierre de Cossé Brissac, 12th Duke of Brissac (13 March 1900 – 4 April 1993), was a French aristocrat and author who wrote historical memoirs. He held the French noble title of Duke of Brissac from 1944 to 1993.

Pierre de Cossé Brissac
Born	(1900-03-13)13 March 1900 Paris, France
Died	4 April 1993(1993-04-04) (aged 93) Paris, France
Occupation	Memoirist
Title	Duke of Brissac
Spouse(s)	Marie-Zélie Schneider ​ ( m. 1924; his death 1993)
Children	François de Cossé Brissac Elvire de Brissac Marie-Pierre de Brissac
Parent(s)	François de Cossé Brissac Mathilde de Crussol d'Uzès
Relatives	Eugène Schneider II (father-in-law) Maurice Herzog (son-in-law)

Early life

He was born in 1900 in Paris.[1] His father, François de Cossé Brissac, was the 11th Duke of Brissac from 1883 to 1944. His mother was Mathilde de Crussol d'Uzès, a daughter of the 12th Duke of Uzès and Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duchess of Uzès.[2]

Career

He wrote historical memoirs, and four of his memoirs were about his family, the Dukes of Brissac.[3] Moreover, he wrote the preface of Guide du protocole et des usages, a book on good manners written by Jacques Gandouin in 1979.[1]

Personal life

May Schneider, Duchess of Brissac

Château de Brissac

In 1924, he married Marie-Zélie Antoinette Schneider (1902–1999), also known as May Schneider, the daughter of French industrialist Eugène Schneider II.[4] They resided at the Château de La Celle in La Celle-les-Bordes, France. They were the parents of two sons and two daughters:[1]

• Marie-Pierre de Brissac (b. 1925), who married Simon Nora in 1947. They divorced in 1954 she married, secondly, Maurice Herzog in 1964.
• François de Cossé Brissac (b. 1929), who married Jacqueline Alice de Contades, daughter of Count Andre de Contades and Daisy Thome, in 1958.
• Giles de Cossé-Brissac (1935–2001)
• Elvire de Brissac (b. 1939), a novelist.[5]

He died in 1993 in Paris.[1]

Distinctions

• Grand Master of the Order of Saint Lazarus (statuted 1910)

Published works

• La duchesse d'Uzès (Paris, Gründ, 1950, 201 pages).
• Les Brissac, Maison de Cossé (Paris: Éditions Fasquelle, 1973, 448 pages).
• A la Billebaude à travers l'Yveline (Chaumont, France: Éditions Crépin-Leblond, 1955, 214 pages).
• Chasse (Chaumont, France: Éditions Crépin-Leblond, 1957, 109 pages).
• Nord Kapp ou la Norvège vue par un Français (Paris: Éditions Del Duca, 1967).
• En d'autres temps (1900-1939) (Paris: Grasset, 1972, 455 pages).
• La suite des temps (1939-1958) (Paris: Grasset, 1974).
• Le temps qui court (1959-1974) (Paris: Grasset, 1977).
• Le château d'en face (1974-1985) (Paris: Grasset, 1986).

References

1. Pierre de Brissac (1900-1993), Bibliothèque nationale de France
2. of), Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de La Caillemotte de Massue de Ruvigny Ruvigny and Raineval (9th marquis (1914). The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who", of the Sovereigns, Princes and Nobles of Europe. Harrison & Sons. p. 392. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
3. Grasset: Duc Brissac (de)
4. Martin, Monique de Saint (1993). L'espace de la noblesse (in French). Editions Métailié. p. 222. ISBN 978-2-86424-141-6. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
5. Alesch, Jeanine S. (2007). Marguerite Yourcenar: The Other/reader. Summa Publications, Inc. ISBN 978-1-883479-56-5. Retrieved 29 June 2020.

French nobility
Preceded by François de Cossé Brissac	Duke of Brissac 1944–1993	Succeeded by François de Cossé-Brissac