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    Louis Jacques Balsan (September 16, 1868 – November 4, 1956) was a French aviator and industrialist, born at Châteauroux (Indre) in 1868, who was the second...
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    to marry the wealthy French aviator Jacques Balsan and continued her charitable endeavours. Consuelo and Balsan lived in France prior to World War II...
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  • Émilienne d'Alençon. While the Balsan family was a part of the upper class circle, Étienne (and his brother Jacques Balsan) were neither landed gentry nor...
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  • producer Jacques Balsan (1868–1956), French aviator and industrialist Louis Balsan (1911–1982), French bobsledder Václav Balšán, Czech racewalker Balsan (company)...
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    1906 and divorced in 1921. Later that year his mother married Lt. Col. Jacques Balsan, a wealthy French balloon, aircraft, and hydroplane pilot, and his father...
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    Comte Henry de La Vaulx FRA 1237 km, Jacques Balsan FRA 1222 km, Jacques Faure FRA 1183 km Duration: Jacques Balsan FRA 35:09, Comte de Castillon de Saint-Victor...
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    wed the former Gladys Deacon; while his mother went on to marry Col. Jacques Balsan. His mother was the only daughter and eldest child of William Kissam...
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  • Humbert Jean René Balsan (21 August 1954 – 10 February 2005) was a French film producer and chairman of the European Film Academy. He was known for securing...
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  • Louise Shepard, eldest daughter of Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard Jacques Balsan (1868–1956): 2nd husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt Grace Vanderbilt (1870–1953):...
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    and left her husband. They divorced in 1921. She married a Frenchman, Jacques Balsan in 1921. She died in 1964, having lived to see her son become Duke of...
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    Catholic.[citation needed] Consuelo subsequently married a Frenchman, Jacques Balsan. She died in 1964, having lived to see her son become Duke of Marlborough;...
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    aviator and industrialist Jacques Balsan, after her divorce from Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough. During the Balsan years, the interiors...
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    her mother enjoyed a closer, easier relationship. Consuelo married Jacques Balsan, a French aeronautics pioneer. William Kissam II became president of...
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    (1892–1973) at the Church of St. Francois the Savior in Paris with Jacques Balsan (the second husband of her stepsister Consuelo) as a witness. Prince...
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    Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough and, secondly, record-breaking pilot Jacques Balsan Gloria Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt family heiress, clothing and perfume designer...
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    weddings included that of Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough, and Lt Col Jacques Balsan in 1921 and Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt and Senator Peter Goelet Gerry...
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    until 1921, when she moved to France following her second marriage to Jacques Balsan, an aviator and entrepreneur. Martin Conway, writing in Country Life...
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    at the home of Alva's daughter Consuelo Vanderbilt and her husband Jacques Balsan (after her divorce from Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough)...
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    several leading French aviators, including Hubert Latham, Henri Rougier, Jacques Balsan, Hubert Le Blon, Mme. Raymonde de Laroche, and Belgian Arthur Duray...
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    Mrs. Audrey Berdeau. Casa Alva. Manalapan, FL. 1935. Colonel & Mrs. Jacques Balsan. Brazilian Court Hotel. Palm Beach. 1936. South wing added by Fatio...
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  • Sarah's grandmother was Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877–1964), who married Jacques Balsan (1868–1956) after her divorce from the Duke of Marlborough. Before the...
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    ex-cavalry officer and textile heir, Étienne Balsan. At the age of twenty-three, Chanel became Balsan's mistress, supplanting the courtesan Émilienne...
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  • weddings included that of Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough and Lt Col Jacques Balsan in 1921 and Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt and Senator Peter Goelet Gerry...
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  • Schmitt. Catherine Frot - Odette Toulemonde Albert Dupontel - Balthazar Balsan Jacques Weber - Olaf Pims Fabrice Murgia - Rudy Nina Drecq - Sue Ellen Camille...
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  • Vanderbilt when she was married to the French aviator and industrialist Jacques Balsan, after her divorce from Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough...
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    the socialite and textile businessman Étienne Balsan, of whom she was the mistress. Because the Balsan flat also was a salon for the French hunting and...
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  • Stévenin as Étienne Balsan Cécile Cassel as Gabrielle Dorziat Brigitt Christensen as Tsarina Alexandra of Russia Vincent Nemeth as Jacques Doucet (fashion...
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  • by the art director Jacques Saulnier. Marie-France Pisier as Coco Chanel Timothy Dalton as Boy Capel Rutger Hauer as Étienne Balsan Karen Black as Émilienne...
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  • Besset Based on The Best of Schools by Jean-Marie Besset Produced by Humbert Balsan Starring Grégori Baquet Jocelyn Quivrin Arthur Jugnot Alice Taglioni Elodie...
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    Poelvoorde also played serious roles. He has starred in 2009 as Etienne Balsan in Coco avant Chanel by Anne Fontain, with Audrey Tautou; as Jean-René in...
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