[3] His wife was the daughter of Auguste Dreyfus, who had made his fortune in the Peruvian guano trade, and Luisa Gonzales Obregon, marquise de Villa Hermosa.

[4] Their son, Count Alain Herve de Lyrot, was a reporter and correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, spokesman for the French Ministry of Information, and then held various jobs related to publication.

[5] Hervé de Lyrot entered politics in 1932, when he ran for parliament on an anti-cartelist Republican platform and was elected in the second round as deputy for Ille-et-Vilaine.

[6] Hervé de Lyrot was absent at the 10 July 1940 vote by the Vichy Congress on giving Marshal Pétain the powers he had demanded.

[8] He was in the United States in September 1942, when he signed a letter sent to General Charles de Gaulle by five members of the French parliament.