Grégoire Bibesco-Bassaraba

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.

[1] Through his daughter Hélène, he was a grandfather of Prince Marc-Adolphe de Caraman-Chimay (1903–1992).

His wife, Ralouka, appears in a fashionable crowd in the Bois de Boulogne drawn by Guth , 1897.
His daughter, Anna, Comtesse de Noailles, by Philip de László , 1913.
From left to right, standing: Prince Edmond de Polignac , Princess of Brancovan, Marcel Proust , Prince Constantin Brancovan (brother of Anna de Noailles), and Léon Delafosse . 2nd row: Madame de Montgenard, Princesse de Polignac , Countess Anna de Noailles , 1st row: Princess Hélène Caraman-Chimay (sister of Anna de Noailles), Abel Hermant