| The Duke of Luynes, Chevreuse and Chaulnes | |
| Office: | Member of the Chamber of Peers |
| Term: | 1814–1815, 1815–1830 |
| Birth Name: | Charles Marie Paul André d'Albert de Luynes |
| Parents: | Louis Joseph d'Albert de Luynes Guionne Élisabeth Joséphine de Montmorency-Laval |
| Children: | Honoré Théodoric d'Albert de Luynes |
Charles Marie Paul André d'Albert, 7th Duke of Luynes (16 October 1783 – 20 March 1839) was a French aristocrat and politician.
He was the only son of Louis Joseph d'Albert de Luynes, 6th Duke of Luynes, and Guionne Élisabeth Joséphine de Montmorency-Laval (1755–1830), a Dame du Palais of Queen Marie Antoinette (wife of Louis XVI). His sister was Pauline Hortense d'Albert de Luynes (wife of their cousin, Mathieu de Montmorency, 1st Duke of Montmorency-Laval).[1]
His maternal grandfather was Guy André Pierre de Montmorency-Laval, 1st Duke of Laval. His paternal grandparents were Charles Louis d'Albert, 5th Duke of Luynes, and Henriette Nicole d'Egmont-Pignatelli. Among his extended family were his aunt, Marie Paule Angélique d'Albert (who married Louis Joseph d'Albert d'Ailly, 7th Duke of Chaulnes), and his niece (through his sister Pauline), Elisabeth-Hélène-Pierre de Montmorency Laval (wife of Sosthènes I de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of Doudeauville).[2]
In 1792, upon the death of Louis Joseph d'Albert, 6th Duke of Chaulnes (and Duke of Picquigny), he inherited the dukedom of Chaulnes, from a distant cousin of a cadet branch of the d'Albert family, becoming the 7th Duke of Chaulnes. Upon the death of his father in 1807, he inherited the dukedoms of Luynes and Chevreuse
During the First Restoration, he was a member of the Chamber of Peers, serving from 1814 to 1815, then again from 1815 to 1817. He was Duke-Peer of France from 1817 to 1830, under the Second Bourbon Restoration.
On 24 February 1800, he Duke married Françoise Marie Félicité Ermesinde du Pelet de Narbonne-Fritzlar (1785–1813), a daughter of Count Francois-Bernard de Narbonne de Pelet and Adelaide Le Contede Nonant de Pierrecourt.[3] [4] Marie served as a Dame du Palais to Empress Joséphine (wife of Napoleon) before her premature death in Lyon in 1813. Together, they were the parents of:
The Duke died on 20 March 1839 and was succeeded in his dukedoms by his son, Honoré, who used the Duke of Luynes title and the Duke of Chaulnes as a courtesy title.[6]