Armand, XII. duc de Gramont

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Armand Antoine Agénor de Gramont, 12th Duke of Gramont was a French nobleman, scientist and industrialist. He was known by the courtesy title of Duke of Guiche until 1925, when he succeeded his father as Duke of Gramont. He was the eldest son of Antoine Alfred Agénor de Gramont, 11th Duke of Gramont and Marguerite de Rothschild.

In 1904, he married Élaine Greffulhe, the daughter of Count Greffulhe and his wife, Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (said to be a model for the Duchess of Guermantes in Marcel Proust’s novel, À la recherche du temps perdu).

A rare film clip shows Proust (in bowler hat and gray coat) at Gramont's wedding in 1904. Proust’s wedding gift to Gramont was apparently a revolver in a leather case inscribed with verses from the bride’s childhood poems.