Georges, marquis d'Harcourt


Georges-Trevor-Douglas-Bernard d'Harcourt-Olonde was a French aristocrat and a 19th-century diplomat. Formally styled marquis d'Harcourt, he served as French Ambassador to London from 1875 until 1879.

Family

Of Anglo-Norman descent, he was the second son of Amédée Louis André Marie Charles François, marquis d'Harcourt by his wife Elizabeth née Pendley.
On 5 August 1841, he married Jeanne-Paule de Beaupoil, daughter of Louis-Clair, comte de Sainte-Aulaire and Louise Charlotte Victoire, daughter of :fr:Nicolas Louis Auguste de Grimoard|Nicolas de Grimoard de Beauvoir du Roure de Beaumont, comte de Brison.
They had seven children:
His elder brother William marquis d'Harcourt-Olonde married, in 1837, Elizabeth Georgiana Cavendish, daughter of General The Hon. Henry Cavendish MP, while his sister, Marie-Augusta, became Duchess of Castries, wife of Charles de La Croix, duc de Castries.

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