Albert de Mun
Also known as: comte de Mun, de Mun, comte de Mon
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Comte Albert de Mun (1841–1914), cavalry officer turned legitimist and Catholic deputy for Pontivy (Morbihan) from 1876 (English Wikipedia, «Albert de Mun»). The index of Mon Journal t.12 lists «Mun (Albert, comte de) : 159». Per the Encyclopædia Universalis («Mun Albert de (1841-1914)»), his Pontivy election was invalidated, he was re-elected, was invalidated a second time in 1878, and was re-elected in 1881.
Relevance to Marie
- 1876-11-26 (067.1254): in the Chamber gallery Marie watches «le comte de Mon beau et sympathique légitimiste : homme profondément religieux et honnête» (the print's spelling; see the RSR note there).
- 1878-11-16 (083.0200): at Versailles for «l'élection de Pontivy»; she sketches him as «un orateur de salons, gentilhomme-soldat, Dieu et le Roy», handsome, speaking too fast, his hair like a wig.
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