Jean-Roger Le Doulcet de Pontécoulant
1832–1885 (age 53)
Biography
Jean-Roger Le Doulcet de Pontécoulant (1832–1885) was a French nobleman whose life reflected the social and political transformations of nineteenth-century France. He navigated the complex transitions between the Second Empire and the Third Republic with the perspective of his aristocratic background.
Pontécoulant's fifty-three years witnessed dramatic changes in French governance and society. His burial in Père Lachaise Cemetery reflects his family's enduring prominence in French society throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century.