Clara Longworth de Chambrun


Clara Eleanor Longworth de Chambrun, Comtesse de Chambrun was an American patron of the arts and scholar of Shakespeare.

She married Count Aldebert de Chambrun, later General de Chambrun, a direct descendant of the Marquis de Lafayette on February 19, 1901 in Cincinnati. She bore him two children, Suzanne Eleanore, born 1902 and Ren, born 1906died 2002. He was the French Military attach in Washington, D. C. at one time, before serving as an artillery officer in World War I. He is reputed to have written his wife about the pleasure he had in shelling his own chteau, near St. Mihiel, with artillery as part of a sixweek siege because it was occupied by German forces, though this later turned out to be a hoax.

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