René, Comte de Rochambeau

“Born 1866, second son of Marquis and Marquise de Rochambeau, who in 1881 were the guests of the Government of the United States during the celebrations of the centennial of the surrender of the British army at Yorktown. He is the head of the family through the death of his elder brother and during the minority of his nephew. He has taken the grades of the faculty of letters, sciences, and law in Paris. At one time he contemplated a diplomatic career, which however, was abandoned for letters and agriculture. He married in 1894 Mademoiselle Rouxel.” -- Kiem, 1907.