Armand de Gramont, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Armand de Gramont

French aristocrat

Date of Birth: 29-Sep-1879

Place of Birth: 8th arrondissement of Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 02-Aug-1962

Profession: scientist, aristocrat, industrialist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Armand Antoine Agénor de Gramont, 12th Duc de Gramont (29 September 1879 – 2 August 1962) was a French nobleman, scientist and industrialist.
He was known by the courtesy title of Duc de Guiche until 1925, when he succeeded his father as Duc de Gramont.
He was the eldest son of Antoine Alfred Agénor de Gramont, 11e duc de Gramont and Marguerite de Rothschild. In 1904, he married Élaine Greffulhe, the daughter of Count Greffulhe and his wife, Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (said to be a model for the Duchess of Guermantes in Marcel Proust’s novel, À la recherche du temps perdu).
A rare film clip shows Proust (in bowler hat and grey coat) at Gramont's wedding in 1904.
Proust’s wedding gift to Gramont was apparently a revolver in a leather case inscribed with verses from the bride’s childhood poems.



Description	Hungarian painter portraits of royal and aristocratic personages
Date of birth/death	30 April 1869	22 November 1937
Location of birth/death	Budapest, Hungary	London, United Kingdom
Work location	Budapest (1885–1889); Munich (1889–1890); Paris (1890–1891); Munich (1891–1892); Budapest (1892–March 1900); Budapest (1900–1903); Rome (March 1900–1900); Vienna (1903–1907); London (1907–1937)
Authority control	: Q704208 VIAF: 15508935 ISNI: 0000 0000 1045 0882 ULAN: 500023836 LCCN: no2004037532 Open Library: OL6453886A WorldCat