[1] Originally from a family in Anjou,[2] his father Charles-Guy (1800-1884) was a senior officer of the Royal Guard who resigned during the July Revolution.

[3] He took a taste for music and attended the premieres of the first lyrical works by Richard Wagner[4] who he did not cease fighting as a musician and a poet.

[5] On 8 May 1849, he married in Paris Claire d'Agoult (1830-1912), daughter of Marie d'Agoult (1805-1876)—her nom de plume being Daniel Stern—, at whose literary salon he had become a regular after meeting Honoré de Balzac in Dresden in countess Hanska's salon.

After the War of 1870-71, he returned to the Bien Public, created by friends of Adolphe Thiers, where he wrote for four years musical and literary criticism.

[16] His son, Daniel de Charnacé (1851[17] – 1942), a former naval officer, then a farmer and a breeder, settled at the Bois-Montbourcher in 1876, with his grandfather, the Marquis Ernest de Charnacé (1800-1884), who had just completed the restoration of the castle and succeeded him as mayor of Chambellay from 1884 to 1942, thus holding the record of longevity to this municipal function.