Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing

Anne-Aymone Marie Josèphe Christiane Giscard d'Estaing (née Sauvage de Brantes; born 10 April 1933[1]) is the widow of former President of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.[2]

Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing
Giscard d'Estaing in 1976
Spouse of the President of France
In role
27 May 1974  21 May 1981
PresidentValéry Giscard d'Estaing
Preceded byClaude Pompidou
Succeeded byDanielle Mitterrand
Personal details
Born
Anne-Aymone Marie Josèphe Christiane Sauvage de Brantes

(1933-04-10) 10 April 1933
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Spouse(s)
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
(m. 1952; died 2020)
Children4, including Henri and Louis
EducationÉcole du Louvre

Biography

She is a daughter of François Marie Joseph Abel Henri Sauvage, Count de Brantes, who died in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp on 8 May 1944, and his wife, Princess Aymone Marie Sylvie Renée Françoise de Faucigny-Lucinge et Coligny, a great-great-granddaughter of Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry by his mistress Amy Brown. She also is a great-niece of the Cuban-born French designer and architect José Emilio Terry y Dorticos and the aunt of Roger Marie Joseph Henri Sauvage de Brantes, the present Marquis de Brantes. Through her mother she is a great-great-granddaughter of Cuban business magnate Tomás Terry y Adán.

Her great-grandfather was Henri Schneider, himself the son of Eugène Schneider, founder of what would become the international syndicate, Schneider Group.[3]

Ancestry

References

Unofficial roles
Preceded by
Claude Pompidou
Spouse of the President of France
1974–1981
Succeeded by
Danielle Mitterrand
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