Count Louis Charles Pineton de Chambrun (10 February 1875 – 6 November 1952) was a French diplomat and writer.

[7][8] Charles served as attaché to France's ambassador to the Vatican, Berlin, then Washington, D.C.

[9] From 1928 to 1933, he represented France in Ankara and then became ambassador to Rome from 1933 to 1935 during the midst of Fascist Italy.

[citation needed] In March 1937, as he was about to board the train to Brussels with his wife, Magda Fontanges, the former mistress of Benito Mussolini, shot him twice at the Gare du Nord because she thought he was behind her expulsion from Italy.

Maître René Floriot defended Fontanges, who only served a one-year suspended prison sentence for her crime.