Count Louis Charles Pineton de Chambrun (10 February 1875 – 6 November 1952) was a French diplomat and writer.
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Early life
Chambrun was born on 10 February 1875 in Washington, D.C., where his father, Charles-Adolphe de Chambrun, Marquis of Chambrun, was a judicial counsellor at the Embassy of France, Washington, D.C. His mother was Marie Henriette Hélène Marthe Tircuy de Corcelle (a great-granddaughter of the Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette). His siblings included Pierre de Chambrun, Marquis of Chambrun (who married American heiress Margaret Rives Nichols); General Count Aldebert de Chambrun (who married Clara Eleanor Longworth, a cousin of Pierre's wife who was sister-in-law to Alice Roosevelt Longworth); and Thérèse de Chambrun (who married explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza).
Through his brother Aldebert, he was uncle to Count René de Chambrun, the French-American lawyer and businessman who married Josée Laval (a daughter of Prime Minister Pierre Laval).