page_title: Pierre de Cossé Brissac
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Pierre de Cossé Brissac / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: May Schneider, duchesse de Brissac
context_page_description: Pierre de Cossé Brissac, 12th Duke of Brissac, was a French aristocrat and author who wrote historical memoirs. He held the French noble title of Duke of Brissac from 1944 to 1993.
context_section_description: In 1924, he married Marie-Zélie Antoinette Schneider (1902–1999), also known as May Schneider, the daughter of French industrialist Eugène Schneider II. They resided at the Château de La Celle in La Celle-les-Bordes, France. They were the parents of two sons and two daughters:
  Marie-Pierre de Brissac (b. 1925), who married Simon Nora in 1947. They divorced in 1954 she married, secondly, Maurice Herzog in 1964.
  François de Cossé Brissac (b. 1929), who married Jacqueline Alice de Contades, daughter of Count Andre de Contades and Daisy Thome, in 1958.
  Giles de Cossé-Brissac (1935–2001)
  Elvire de Brissac (b. 1939), a novelist.
  He died in 1993 in Paris.
caption: May Schneider, Duchess of Brissac
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