Georges Picot


Georges Marie René Picot was a French lawyer and historian.
His main work is Histoire des États généraux for which he twice gained the prize of the French Academy in 1873 and 1874.

Biography

Georges Picot was born in Paris, son of Charles Picot and his wife Henriette Bidois. He married in Saint-Bouize on 19 June 1865 with Marie Adélaïde Marthe Bachasson de Montalivet, daughter of Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet and a great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard.
He had seven children, the third of whom was the diplomat François Georges-Picot, and the fifth, Geneviève Picot, was the maternal grandmother of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Through his son Charles, he was a grandfather of :fr:Jacques Georges-Picot|Jacques Georges-Picot, chairman of Suez Canal Company.
He died in Allevard-les-Bains.

Works