Charles Marie d'Albert de Luynes

Charles Marie Paul André d'Albert, 7th Duke of Luynes (16 October 1783 – 20 March 1839) was a French aristocrat and politician.

His paternal grandparents were Charles Louis d'Albert, 5th Duke of Luynes, and Henriette Nicole d'Egmont-Pignatelli.

Among his extended family were his aunt, Marie Paule Angélique d'Albert (who married Louis Joseph d'Albert d'Ailly, 7th Duke of Chaulnes), and his niece (through his sister Pauline), Elisabeth-Hélène-Pierre de Montmorency Laval (wife of Sosthènes I de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of Doudeauville).

[a] Upon the death of his father in 1807, he inherited the dukedoms of Luynes and Chevreuse[b] During the First Restoration, he was a member of the Chamber of Peers, serving from 1814 to 1815, then again from 1815 to 1817.

[7][8] Marie served as a Dame du Palais to Empress Joséphine (wife of Napoleon) before her premature death in Lyon in 1813.

Photograph of his son, Honoré , by Louis-Auguste Bisson , c. 1860