Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut
An illegitimate son of the French statesman
Talleyrand and his married lover Adelaide Filleul, Countess of Flahaut, Count Auguste Charles Joseph de Flahaut de La Billardie was a lover of
Hortense de Beauharnais and father of the
Duc de Morny. His crossdressing granddaughter Mathilde de Morny, Marquise de Belbeuf (1862-1944), created a scandal at the turn of the 19th century by her affair with the French novelist
Colette.
He married Margaret Elphinstone, daughter of Admiral George Keith Elphinstone, Lord Keith, and had five children.