Polignac, Jean Marie Henri Melchior de
(1888–1943)
Polignac, Jean Marie Henri Melchior dePolignac, Jean Marie Henri MelchiorJean Marie Henri Melchior Polignac (B * KERBASTIC, 1888 – D † PARIS, 1943) Count of the distinguished Polignac line of French nobility, nephew of Prince Edmond de Polignac (1834–1901). He owned a Polignac family château in Brittany called Kerbastic, hosting many musical and poetic evenings. He was devastated by the German occupation of his home in 1943, and, weakened for life by the experience of being gassed in battle in…