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Died
  
30 November 1883

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Parents
  
Amédée-Louis-André-Marie-Charles-François d'Harcourt d'Olonde

Children
  
Bernard d'Harcourt, Emmanuel D'Harcourt

Grandparent
  
Charles-Louis-Hector d'Harcourt d'Olonde

Georges-Trevor-Douglas-Bernard d'Harcourt-Olonde (4 November 1808 – 30 November 1883) was a French aristocrat and a 19th-century diplomat. Formally styled marquis d'Harcourt, he served as French Ambassador to London from 1875 until 1879.

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Family

Of Anglo-Norman descent, he was the second son of Amédée-Louis-André-Marie-Charles-François, marquis d'Harcourt (1771-1831) by his wife Elizabeth née Pendley (1771-1846).

On 5 August 1841, he married Jeanne-Paule de Beaupoil (1817-1893), daughter of Louis-Clair, comte de Sainte-Aulaire and Louise-Charlotte-Victoire, daughter of Nicolas de Grimoard de Beauvoir du Roure de Beaumont, comte de Brison. They had seven children:

  • Bernard-Pierre-Louis (1842-1914), marquis d'Harcourt and baron d'Olonde, etc.
  • Louis-Emmanuel, (1844-1928), Mayor of Souppes
  • Victor-Amédée-Constant (1848-1935), Colonel of the 168th Infantry Regiment
  • Louis-Marie-Georges (1856-1946), Major in the French Cavalry
  • Pauline d'Harcourt-Olonde (1846-1922), comtesse d'Haussonville
  • Aline d'Harcourt-Olonde (1852-1943)
  • Catherine d'Harcourt-Olonde (1859-1944), comtesse de Puymaigre
  • His elder brother William marquis d'Harcourt-Olonde married, in 1837, Elizabeth Georgiana Cavendish daughter of General The Hon. Henry Cavendish MP, while his sister, Marie-Augusta, became Duchess of Castries, wife of Charles de La Croix, duc de Castries.

    Honours

  • - Officer, Légion d'honneur
  • - Knight of Malta
  • References

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