| Charles de La Valette | |
| Office: | French Ambassador to the United Kingdom |
| Term Start: | 1869 |
| Term End: | 1870 |
| Predecessor: | Henri, Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais |
| Successor: | Philippe de Rohan-Chabot |
| Office1: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Term Start1: | 17 December 1868 |
| Term End1: | 17 July 1869 |
| Predecessor1: | Lionel de Moustier |
| Successor1: | Henri, Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais |
| Term Start2: | 1 September 1866 |
| Term End2: | 2 October 1866 |
| Predecessor2: | Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys |
| Successor2: | Lionel de Moustier |
| Office3: | Minister of the Interior |
| Term Start3: | 28 March 1865 |
| Term End3: | 13 November 1867 |
| Predecessor3: | Paul Boudet |
| Successor3: | Ernest Pinard |
| Birth Name: | Charles Jean Marie Félix de La Valette |
| Birth Date: | 25 November 1806 |
| Birth Place: | Senlis, Oise, France |
| Death Place: | Paris, France |
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Charles Jean Marie Félix, Marquis de La Valette (25 November 1806 – 2 May 1881) was a French politician and diplomat.[1]
Charles de La Valette was Minister of the Interior and of Foreign Affairs in the government of Emperor Napoleon III.[1]
He was French Ambassador to Constantinople from 1851-53, before the Crimean War, then served as a government minister, before a posting to the Vatican (an ancestral family member Jean Parisot de Valette had been Grand Master of the Order of Malta).
An Anglophile, he finally returned to London in an official capacity as French Ambassador from 1869 to 1870.[1]
The Marquis married firstly Maria Garrow Birkett at London in 1828. Maria, a daughter of the late Daniel Birkett, Esq., of Isleworth, died in 1831, aged 24.[2]
In 1842, he married secondly to Adeline Fowle Welles (1799–1869), the widow of a Boston banker Samuel Welles, who died in 1841.[3] After twenty-seven years of marriage,[3] Adeline died in 1869.[4]
He married thirdly, in 1871, Georgiana Gabrielle de Flahaut, third daughter of Charles, Comte de Flahaut and Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, and an younger sister of Emily Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne.[5]