Comte de Bourbon-Chalus
(1819-1871)

Identified recto on the mount as the ‘Cte. de Bourbon-Chalus [and mentioned in Disdéri’s catalogue of March 1861 as the ‘comte Bourbon de Chalus’], this is probably Gaspard, comte de Bourbon-Chalus.

The son of François Louis Joseph de Bourbon, comte de Busset, he was born in Paris on 21 January 1819. He married, firstly, in 1847, Celeste des Bravards Deyssat du Prat (1825-1857) and secondly, in 1860, Marie Yel de Castelnaut (1832-1899).

He died, aged 52, at the Château de Busset in the Auvergne on 10 November 1871 and was buried there.