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| Le duc et la duchesse de Sabran. Photo (c) Getty Images / Bertrand Rindoff Petroff. |
Aujourd'hui, le 8e Duc de Sabran fête son quatre-vingt-cinquième anniversaire !
Né le 30 avril 1937 à Villecresnes, Charles Élzéar Marie Joseph Adrien de Sabran-Pontevès était le premier enfant de Foulques, 7e duc de Sabran (1908-1973) et de Roselyne Manca-Amat de Vallambrosa (1910-1988). Roselyne, duchesse de Sabran, était une amie proche du prince Rainier et de la princesse Grace de Monaco. Élzéar avait quatre frères et sœurs plus jeunes : Jean Henri (1939-2017 ; marié à Marie Isabelle Decazes de Glücksbierg), Géraud (1940-1941), Gersende (né en 1942 ; marié au prince Jacques, duc d'Orléans) et le vicomte Géraud de Sabran ( née en 1943; mariée à Stéphanette Fabre). Élzéar devient le 8e duc de Sabran suite au décès de son père en 1973. Élzéar a fait carrière dans les affaires et est propriétaire du Château d'Ansouis.
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| Élzéar et Dewi Sukarno avec sa fille Kartika, décembre 1977. Photo (c) Reginald Davis de The Australian Women's Weekly . |
In December 1977, Élzéar de Sabran-Pontevès alluded to his upcoming engagement to Naoko Nemoto (b.1940; aka Ratna Sari Dewi Sukarno), one of the wives and subsequent widows of Sukarno, the first President of Indonesia. The French duke and the widow of the Indonesian leader had been seeing one another since 1975. Élzéar was forty years-old and described as being “very good looking and rather shy” as well as having “the figure of an athlete and a young man’s exuberance.” It was stated that the couple would officially announce their betrothal early in 1978. Élzéar, by then Duc de Sabran, commented: “It has been impossible for Dewi and me to get any time together. We simply never get away from people. That is why we are leaving Paris and taking a holiday visiting Japan and the places Dewi knows and loves. It will be nice for me to see these places. Dewi knows my world well – and apparently likes it. Now I must know hers. It will be a quiet visit. I am fascinated by the Orient, and I want to see as much as I can on this holiday. I am not a member of the jet set. I do not travel a lot. When I travel, I would rather see a lot of the country and learn something of its culture.” The duke shared that he and Madame Sukarno shared a passion for historical preservation, particularly of the Château d’Ansouis. “I take care of the outside, and Dewi has been in charge of the restoration of the first and second floors. We love d’Ansouis. It is part of my life and something to return to. There is nothing new, nothing brash at d’Ansouis. Nothing we have not lived with for generations.” For reasons unknown, the Duc de Sabran and Madame Dewi Sukarno never married.
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| The duke and duchess de Sabran, 2001. Photo (c) Getty Images / Bertrand Rindoff Petroff. |
In 1997, the Duc de Sabran married Dubravka “Douchka” Cizmek (b.1946) at Versailles. The couple were religiously married at the Château d’Ansouis in 1999. Élzéar and Dubravka, Duke and Duchess de Sabran, welcomed the arrival of their only child, a daughter Delphine, in 2001.
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