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Boniface de Castellane
Esprit Victor Elisabeth Boniface de Castellane, "comte de Castellane" (March 21, 1788September 16, 1862), was a French military officer and ultimately a Marshal of France.
First Empire.
Boniface de Castellane entered the French army on the day of the coronation of Napoléon I of France (December 2, 1804) as an enlisted soldier in the 5th Light Infantry Regiment. In February 1806 he was promoted to 2nd lieutenant in the 7th Dragoons. The same month he was transferred to the
1895, she married Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane (1867–1932), elder son and heir apparent of the Marquis of Castellane, in Manhattan, New York. He was commonly referred to as "Boniface de Castellane" with the nickname "Boni" and used the courtesy title of Count of Castellane ("Comte de Castellane"). Before their divorce, Boni and Anna had five children together:
- Marie Louise de Castellane (b. 1896)
- Boniface, Marquis de Castellane (1896–1946), who married Yvonne