{{short description|French diplomat, writer, and historian}} {{Expand French|topic=bio|Edmond de Fels|date=January 2012}} thumb|Edmond de Fels '''Edmond de Fels''' (1858, in Marseille – 1951) was a French diplomat, writer and historian.
==Biography== Edmond Gustave Frisch was born in Marseille on July 30, 1858.<ref>{{cite web |language=fr |title=Edmond de Fels (1858-1951) |url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/ark:/12148/cb12950915j}}</ref> His mother, Anna Fölsch von Fels (1826-1893), was born and died in Marseille. The Fölsch von Fels family, originally from Hamburg, Germany, produced a long dynasty of Swedish Consuls in Marseille, a post the family held continuously for 150 years in the city, from 1731 to 1881. His father, Jules Théodore Frisch (1818-1895), was born in Copenhagen and died in Marseille. He was a shipbroker and Danish Consul in Marseille from 1849 to 1858.
Edmond Frisch is a diplomat based in Tunis and Madrid.
On December 3, 1888 in Paris, he married Jeanne Lebaudy (1865-1943),<ref>{{cite web |title=Edmond Frisch de Fels |url=https://roglo.eu/roglo?lang=fr;i=8359576}}</ref> a wealthy heiress to the Lebaudy sugar dynasty whose mother was the philanthropist Amicie Lebaudy and whose brothers Jacques Lebaudy, Robert and Max Lebaudy.
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