Duke Gramont Signed Cabinet Card Photo CDV Royal Prince Bidache France Royalty

Description: LOT-P163. For your consideration is an exceedingly rare and historically important original antique c.1861 cabinet card / CDV / photograph of Agnor de Gramont, 10th Duke of Gramont, hand-signed and dated 1861 by Duke Gramont / Prince of Bidache. Royal French Duke of Gramont signed cabinet card is manuscript hand-signed in black fountain pen ink. Royalty presentation cabinet card is original. Condition is fine. Photograph is original. Carte de Visite measures approximately 65mm x 107mm. Museum quality. One of a kind. Authentic and correct. Agnor de Gramont, 10th Duke of Gramont (Antoine Alfred Agnor; 14 August 1819 17 January 1880) was a French diplomat and statesman, who also had the title of Prince of Bidache. He was born in Paris to one of the most illustrious families of the old noblesse, a cadet branch of the viscounts of Aure, which took its name from the Seignory of Gramont in Navarre. His grandfather, Antoine VIII de Gramont, duc de Gramont (17551836), had emigrated during the French Revolution, and his father, Antoine Hraclius Genevieve Agnor (17891855), duc de Gramont and de Guiche, fought under the British flag in the Peninsular War, became a lieutenant-general in the French army in 1823, and in 1830 accompanied Charles X of France to Scotland. The younger generation, however, were Bonapartist in sympathy; Gramont's cousin Antoine Louis Raymond, comte de Gramont (17871825), though also the son of an migr, served with distinction in Napolon's armies, while Antoine Agnor owed his career to his early friendship for Louis Napoleon. Gramont was educated at the cole Polytechnique. Gramont early gave up the army for diplomacy. It was not, however, until after the coup d'tat of 2 December 1851, which made Louis Napoleon supreme in France, that he became conspicuous as a diplomat. He was successively minister plenipotentiary at Cassel and Stuttgart (1852), at Turin (1853), ambassador at Washington DC (1854), Rome (1857) and at Vienna (1861). In 1854, he was one of the few survivors of the disastrous sinking of the SS Arctic while en route to Washington DC. De Gramont was observed leaping from the ship into the last lifeboat; he was one of the 85 survivors (61 crew members and 24 male passengers). More than 300 people died, including all the women and children on board.

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