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4th Prince of Wagram | |
Tenure | 15 July 1911 - 30 May 1918 |
Predecessor | Alexandre Berthier |
Full name | Alexandre Louis Philippe Marie Berthier |
Born | 20 July 1883 Paris |
Died | 30 May 1918 Fort de Condé-sur-Aisne |
Buried | Château de Grosbois |
Noble family | Berthier |
Father | Alexandre Berthier, 3rd Prince of Wagram |
Mother | Baroness Bertha Clara von Rothschild |
Alexandre Louis Philippe Marie Berthier, 4th Prince de Wagram (20 July 1883 – 30 May 1918) was a French nobleman and an art collector.
Born as the son of Alexandre Berthier, 3rd Prince of Wagram (1836–1911) and Baroness Bertha Clara von Rothschild (1862–1903 [1]), member of the German branch of the prominent Rothschild family. The family resided in the ancestral home, the Château de Grosbois, a large estate in Boissy-Saint-Léger, southeast of Paris. He had two sisters, Elisabeth (1885–1960) and Marguerite (1887–1966) of whom the latter married Prince Jean Victor de Broglie. [1]
Alexandre Berthier was an active collector of modern art. [2] He owned works by Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Of the last he bequeathed 17 to the French nation in his will. [1]
Berthier bequeathed Grosbois to his sister before leaving for the Army and World War I on 1 August 1914. An army captain and the leader of a company of chasseurs during the Third Battle of the Aisne, he sustained wounds from shell fire at Fort de Condé-sur-Aisne and died from them on 30 May 1918. He had no issue. [1] [3] He was buried at the Château de Grosbois like his father and grandfather. [4]
Alexandre Berthier | |
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4th Prince of Wagram | |
Tenure | 15 July 1911 - 30 May 1918 |
Predecessor | Alexandre Berthier |
Full name | Alexandre Louis Philippe Marie Berthier |
Born | 20 July 1883 Paris |
Died | 30 May 1918 Fort de Condé-sur-Aisne |
Buried | Château de Grosbois |
Noble family | Berthier |
Father | Alexandre Berthier, 3rd Prince of Wagram |
Mother | Baroness Bertha Clara von Rothschild |
Alexandre Louis Philippe Marie Berthier, 4th Prince de Wagram (20 July 1883 – 30 May 1918) was a French nobleman and an art collector.
Born as the son of Alexandre Berthier, 3rd Prince of Wagram (1836–1911) and Baroness Bertha Clara von Rothschild (1862–1903 [1]), member of the German branch of the prominent Rothschild family. The family resided in the ancestral home, the Château de Grosbois, a large estate in Boissy-Saint-Léger, southeast of Paris. He had two sisters, Elisabeth (1885–1960) and Marguerite (1887–1966) of whom the latter married Prince Jean Victor de Broglie. [1]
Alexandre Berthier was an active collector of modern art. [2] He owned works by Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Of the last he bequeathed 17 to the French nation in his will. [1]
Berthier bequeathed Grosbois to his sister before leaving for the Army and World War I on 1 August 1914. An army captain and the leader of a company of chasseurs during the Third Battle of the Aisne, he sustained wounds from shell fire at Fort de Condé-sur-Aisne and died from them on 30 May 1918. He had no issue. [1] [3] He was buried at the Château de Grosbois like his father and grandfather. [4]
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