page_title: Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat
hierarchical_section_title: Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Carte postale ancienne éditée par De Dion-Bouton: Les ancètres aux Usines de Dion-Bouton 6 - M. Bouton et M. le Comte de Chasseloup-Laubat en dog-car à vapeur (1885)
context_page_description: Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat was a French aristocrat and race car driver. He was the son of Prosper, Marquis of Chasseloup-Laubat, minister of Napoleon III, and of his American wife Marie-Louise Pilié.
  He is known for setting the first recognised automobile land speed record on December 18, 1898, in Achères, Yvelines, using a Jeantaud electric car. The record was set as part of a competition organised by the French automobile magazine La France Automobile. He completed a single flying 1 kilometre run in 57 seconds to give an average speed of 63.13 km/h.
  He further improved this record to 66.65 km/h one month later on January 17, 1899, also at Achères, in the first of a series of record setting duels with Camille Jenatzy. Ten days later Jenatzy managed to break this record with a speed of 80.35 km/h, although it would revert to de Chasseloup-Laubat on March 4, 1899, when he increased it to 92.69 km/h. Jenatzy finally took the record on April 29, 1899, with the first run to exceed 100 km/h with an average speed of 105 km/h, a record that was to last 3 years.
context_section_description: Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat (7 June 1866, Paris, France – 20 November 1903, Le Cannet, France) was a French aristocrat and race car driver. He was the son of Prosper, Marquis of Chasseloup-Laubat, minister of Napoleon III, and of his American wife Marie-Louise Pilié. 
  He is known for setting the first recognised automobile land speed record on December 18, 1898, in Achères, Yvelines, using a Jeantaud electric car. The record was set as part of a competition organised by the French automobile magazine La France Automobile. He completed a single flying 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) run in 57 seconds to give an average speed of 63.13 km/h (39.23 mph).
  He further improved this record to 66.65 km/h (41.41 mph) one month later on January 17, 1899, also at Achères, in the first of a series of record setting duels with Camille Jenatzy. Ten days later Jenatzy managed to break this record with a speed of 80.35 km/h (49.93 mph), although it would revert to de Chasseloup-Laubat on March 4, 1899, when he increased it to 92.69 km/h (57.59 mph). Jenatzy finally took the record on April 29, 1899, with the first run to exceed 100 km/h (62.14 mph) with an average speed of 105 km/h (65.24 mph), a record that was to last 3 years.
  Chasseloup-Laubat managed to win the Marseille-La Turbie long-distance race in 1897 with a steam vehicle built by Trépardoux & Cie, predecessor of De Dion-Bouton. This was the only major city-to-city event won by a steam car.
  The count died in Le Cannet, near Cannes, aged 37, after a two-years long illness.
caption: Georges Bouton and the count de Chasseloup-Laubat on a steam automobile Trépardoux & Cie. Dog Cart de route (1885), possibly the winning vehicle of the Marseille-La Turbie contest of 1897.
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