Paul d'Albert, 10th Duke of Chaulnes

Paul Marie Stanislas Honoré d'Albert de Luynes, 10th Duke of Chaulnes and Picquigny (16 February 1852 – 26 September 1881) was a French aristocrat, soldier and writer.

His elder brother, the Duke of Luynes, fell on the field of honor at Loigny, the Duc de Chaulnes fought valiantly at the Battle of Coulmiers, where he was seriously wounded in the foot by shrapnel and remained lying on the battlefield for five hours after which he was taken to the Duke of Doudeauville whose surgeon nursed him back to health.

[12] After he recovered, he went into the diplomatic corps under the Marquis de Vogué, a friend of his elder brother, who was then the Ambassador of France at Constantinople.

[14] After his death, The Renaissance in Italy and France at the time of Charles VIII, by Eugène Müntz, under the direction and with the assistance of the Duke, was published by Firmin-Didot et Cie in 1885, and which was inspired by his ancestors at Palazzo Alberti,[12] and "a vast collection of documents, correspondence and family records, going back three or four centuries," discovered there.

[18] Together, they were the parents of two children:[19] The Duke died on 26 September 1881 at the Château de Sablé, his home on the Sarthe River in Sablé-sur-Sarthe and was succeeded in his dukedoms by his only son Emmanuel.