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Prince Grégoire Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan (12 December 1827 – 15 October 1886)[1] was a Romanian-French prince.
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Prince Grégoire was born in Craiova on 12 December 1827 and was a son of Romanian Prince Georges Bibesco (Gheorghe Bibescu) and Princess Zoé Bassaraba de Brancovan (Brâncoveanu).[1]
He married Rakoul (Rachel) Musurus (born c. 1848), the daughter of Pasha Constantine ('Costaki') Musurus (1807–1891) the Ottoman ambassador to Britain, and his wife Anna Vogoridès. He was a relative of Romanian ambassador Prince Antoine Bibesco, husband of Elizabeth Lucy Asquith, who was the daughter of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom H. H. Asquith. Prince Grégoire and his wife Rachel had three children:[2]
Their home, Villa Bassaraba just west of Évian at Amphion-les-Bains, was a gathering place for music and poetry lovers, including Marcel Proust, Prince Edmond de Polignac, the Princess de Polignac (formerly Winnaretta Singer, a daughter of Singer sewing machine fortune founder Isaac Singer), Prince Antoine Bibesco, and the novelist Abel Hermant.[2]
Prince Gregoire died in Paris on 15 October 1886.[1]
Through his daughter Hélène, he was a grandfather of Prince Marc-Adolphe de Caraman-Chimay (1903–1992).[4]
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