Eugène d'Halwin de Piennes

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Mausoleum of the De Piennes family in Vrbovec

Eugène d'Halwin Marquis de Piennes (born January 20, 1825 in Périers , Département Manche ; † January 6, 1911 in Vrbovec , Croatia ) was a French diplomat and statesman from an old Picardy family who had lived on the English Channel since the 16th century was.

De Piennes served as embassy secretary in Lisbon , Saint Petersburg and Rome from the 1850s , where he befriended the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux , of whom he became a patron. After his return to France in 1862 he was general councilor of his home department Manche, as which he served until 1870, and mayor of his hometown Périers. As chamberlain to the Empress Eugénie de Montijo (1863) he introduced Carpeaux to the court; He also obtained the release of funds for the restoration of Mont-St-Michel and campaigned for the promotion of the Périers region. After the end of the Empire, he withdrew from politics and went to Croatia , where he supervised the construction of the Balkan Railway , financed by Baron Maurice de Hirsch . He donated his extensive art collection to the Strossmayer'schen Gemäldegalerie at the Museum of Zagreb .

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  • Willy Gianinazzi , “Le marquis de Piennes, chambellan de l'impératrice Eugénie et informateur de Georges Sorel  ”, Revue de la Manche , t. LIII, fasc. 211, 1 trim. 2011.