Ferdinand de Lesseps - Second Marriage and Issue

Second Marriage and Issue

In Paris on 25 November 1869 he married his second wife, Mlle Louise-Hélène Autard de Bragard. She was born on the island of Mauritius in 1848 at Plaines Wilhems and died on 29 January 1909 at Château de La Chesnay in Guilly, Vatan, Indre She was the daughter of Gustave Adolphe Autard de Bragard, a former Magistrate of Mauritius, and wife Marie-Louise Carcenac (1817–1857), daughter of Pierre Carcenac (1771–1819) and wife Marie Françoise Dessachis. Eleven of her twelve children with de Lesseps survived their father:

  • Mathieu Marie de Lesseps (Paris, 12 October 1870 - Paris, 7 October 1953), married to ...
  • Ferdinand-Ismaël de Lesseps (1871–1915)
  • Ferdinande de Lesseps (Paris, 3 December 1872 - Paris, 4 May 1948), married firstly in Paris on 10 May 1890 to Ferdinand de Gontaut-Biron (Paris, 11 November 1868 - Château de Kimpempois, 6 December 1898), of the Marquesses of Saint-Blacard, by whom she had a son Ferdinand de Gontaut-Biron (Paris, 25 January 1892 - Paris, 2 February 1892), and married secondly François-Joseph de Cassagne de Beaufort, Marquis de Miramon (1867–1932)
  • Eugénie Marie de Lesseps (1873–1874)
  • Bertrand de Lesseps (1875–1918)
  • Marie Consuelo de Lesseps (1875–1944)
  • Marie-Eugénie de Lesseps (1876–1958)
  • Marie Solange de Lesseps (Château de La Chesnaye, Guilly, Vatan, Indre, 17 September 1877 - ?), married in Paris on 12 January 1910 to Don Fernando Mexía y Fitz-James-Stuart (Biarritz, 22 October 1881 - ?), 6th Duke of Tamames, 3rd Duke of Galisteo and 12th Count of Mora, and had issue
  • Paul Marie de Lesseps (1880–1955)
  • Robert de Lesseps (Paris, 23 May 1882 - KIA World War I, 1916), married February 27, 1902 to Marthe Josepha Sophie Allard (Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, 17 May 1884 - Uccle, Brussels-Capital Region, 19 July 1970), and had issue:
    • Nicole de Lesseps
    • Robert Martin de Lesseps (Paris, 4 December 1915 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 24 June 1981), married in London on 11 August 1945 to Beatrice Duggan (22 October 1922 -), and had issue:
        • Claire de Lesseps (b. Paris, 4 July 1956 -), married to Johann, Graf von Gudenus (b. Waidhofen, 10 March 1952 -), and has issue, one son and two daughters
  • Count Jacques Benjamin de Lesseps (1883–1927), aviator, married Grace McKenzie 1911.
  • Gisele de Lesseps (12 December 1885 - 4 July 1973)

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