Charles Jean Marie Félix, Marquis de La Valette (25 November 1806 – 2 May 1881) was a French politician and diplomat.[1]
Charles de La Valette was Minister of the Interior and of Foreign Affairs in the government of Emperor Napoleon III.[1]
He was French Ambassador to Constantinople from 1851-53, before the Crimean War, then served as a government minister, before a posting to the Vatican (an ancestral family member Jean Parisot de Valette had been Grand Master of the Order of Malta).[2]
An Anglophile, he finally returned to London in an official capacity as French Ambassador from 1869 to 1870.[1]
The Marquis married firstly Maria Garrow Birkett at London in 1828. Maria, a daughter of the late Daniel Birkett, Esq., of Isleworth, died in 1831, aged 24.[3]
In 1842, he married secondly to Adeline Fowle Welles (1799–1869), the widow of a Boston banker Samuel Welles, who died in 1841.[2] After twenty-seven years of marriage,[2] Adeline died in 1869.[4]
He married thirdly, in 1871, Georgiana Gabrielle de Flahaut, third daughter of Charles, Comte de Flahaut and Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, and an younger sister of Emily Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne.[5]
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