Charles Pineton de Chambrun (10 February 1875 in Washington – 6 November 1952) was a French diplomat and writer. Biography He was the son of a judicial counsellor to the French ambassador to the United States. Charles served as attaché to France's ambassador to the Vatican, Berlin, then Washington. In 1914, he became First Secretary at the St Petersburg embassy, and later served in Athens and Vienna. From 1928 to 1933, he represented France in Ankara and then became ambassador to Rome from 1933 to 1935. In Rome he married Marie de Rohan-Chabot (1876–1951), daughter of the Duke and the Duchess of Rohan and widow of prince Lucien Murat. She was a writer, galleriste and landscape and portrait painter. With Paul Claudel, Maurice Garçon, Marcel Pagnol, Jules Romains and Henri Mondor, he was one of six people elected on 4 April 1946 to the Académie française in the second group election to fill the numerous empty seats caused by the lack of elections during the German occupation of France. Chambrun was a Grand officer of the Légion d'Honneur. Works Charles de Chambrun Lettres à Marie, Pétersbourg-Pétrograd, 1914–1918 (1941) Atatürk et la Turquie nouvelle (1939) À l'école d'un diplomate : Vergennes (1944) L'Esprit de la diplomatie (1944) Traditions et souvenirs (1952) Marie de Rohan Chabot (under the name Marie de Chambrun) Le Roi de Rome, Plon, 1941 Marie de Rohan Chabot (under the name Princesse Lucien Murat) Raspoutine et l'aube sanglante, De Boccard, s.d. La reine Christine de Suède, Flammarion, 1934 Les Errants de la Gloire, Flammarion, 1933 La vie amoureuse de la Grande Catherine coll. « Leurs amours », Flammarion, 1927 References External links Académie Française 1875 births 1952 deaths 20th-century French diplomats 20th-century French non-fiction writers 20th-century French male writers Grand Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Ambassadors of France to Greece Ambassadors of France to Turkey Ambassadors of France to Italy French expatriates in the United States