Georges Picot
Georges Marie René Picot (1838–1909) was a French lawyer and historian. His most important work is Histoire des États généraux, which earned him the French Academy prize in 1873 and 1874.
He was born in Paris to Charles Picot and Henriette Bidois. In 1865 he married Marie Adélaïde Marthe Bachasson de Montalivet, who came from the family of the Count of Montalivet. Some claim she was a great-granddaughter of King Louis XV through Catherine Eléonore Bernard, but this is disputed.
They had seven children. Their third child, François Georges-Picot, became a diplomat. Their fifth child, Geneviève Picot, was the maternal grandmother of former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. Through his son Charles, Georges Picot was the grandfather of Jacques Georges-Picot, who chaired the Suez Canal Company.
Georges Picot died in Allevard-les-Bains.
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